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...game of tag, porpoise tag.”The early and descriptive passages of Daniel L. Everett’s book, “Don’t Sleep, There are Snakes,” a work chronicling his life with and research on the Pirahã, paint a picture of a near-idyllic retreat. However, the response the work has provoked at home—particularly within the linguistic community—has been far from tranquil. And while Everett and this book are gaining national attention for the unique nature of his discoveries, he’s also...
...also you don’t really know what you’re getting as it comes at you.” The first, and currently only, edition of The Warble features a webcomic, two poems, two short films, two short stories, and a picture drawn using Microsoft Paint...
...limited potential for it in academic study. “Web art, by definition, is ephemeral,” says VES professor John R. Stilgoe. “It is hard to save, even when you try to save it. I fear it’s like a Rothko painting. His paint deteriorated, and I fear that a lot of web art will deteriorate when the formats change...
...hungry in 2007 than at any other time in the past 10 years. A new Department of Agriculture report says money woes caused 323,000 households to cut back on food for children in 2007, up from 221,000 in 2006. Federal officials expect this year's data to paint an even worse picture...
Piles of red bricks clutter the roadsides. Stacks of concrete drainage pipes fill parking lots, while stores do a brisk trade in paint and window frames. Like countless other places in China, this corner of central Sichuan province is undergoing a building boom. But this is no typical growth story. When I was here six months ago, bodies jutted from the pancaked floors of collapsed buildings and lined rubble-strewn streets. Tens of thousands of homeless crowded into sports stadiums, and millions more slept in tents. The surface of the Zipingba Reservoir was covered with a brackish film from...