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Just when you thought your two-volume course-pack for “First Nights” was the ultimate in oversized ridiculousness, our friends over at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have gone and upped the standard. MIT scientist Michael Hawley has authored the world’s largest book: a 133-pound, five-by-seven-foot tome entitled “Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Kingdom.” The book’s 112 pages showcases spectacular digital photographs of the tiny country perched in the Himalayas and required innovations in bookbinding (all done...
Just when you thought your two-volume course-pack for “First Nights” was the ultimate in oversized ridiculousness, our friends over at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have gone and upped the standard. MIT scientist Michael Hawley has authored the world’s largest book: a 133-pound, five-by-seven-foot tome entitled “Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Kingdom.” The book’s 112 pages showcases spectacular digital photographs of the tiny country perched in the Himalayas and required innovations in bookbinding (all done...
...brand of intolerant Islamic fundamentalism in a country with a history of religious tolerance. Bangladesh's Hindus, who constitute about 10% of the population of the predominantly Muslim nation, say they are increasingly being intimidated by gangs of Islamic fundamentalists, who attack them in their homes, warn them to pack up and leave for India and, for good measure, extort ransom from them. "The condition of religious minorities has become terrible under the present government," says Subrata Chowdhury, a Dhaka-based Hindu human-rights lawyer. The brutal attack on well-known intellectual Azad, a moderate Muslim who is an outspoken...
...quite a pack. Even before 60 Minutes aired, White House communications director Dan Bartlett was countering Clarke's charges in interviews with the networks and cable news channels. Reporters also received a four-page rebuttal of Clarke's book by email from the White House. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, who racked up the most Nielsen points, declined to speak publicly before the 9/11 commission, citing Executive privilege, but swung at Clarke for any reporter willing to listen. She even took the rare step of inviting unwieldy clutches of journalists into her vast but tidy West Wing office. "What...
...keyboard, microphone or guitar. Apple is selling a $99 keyboard that plugs directly into the computer via a USB connection, and a $149 amp for guitar, bass, microphone and keyboard with midi connections. There are some 50 software instruments in GarageBand and an additional 100 in Jam Pack. And if you flub the recording off beat, even with the built-in metronome? Not to worry...