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...account could not speak more clearly or tragically. Where the air tastes like age and the band sounds like conceit framed by a stage and respectable album sales, Death Cab played on Tuesday for thousands. The carpets bore the stains of too many feet and the paint weighed heavy on the walls. And by the aisles, burly security guards wearing orange vests, arms crossed like shields over their chests made sure that no one stood in the walkways and that fervent fans didn’t overstep their ticket assignments. Behind my seat, a shaggy haired all-American knew every...
...article, as well as the accompanying picture, paint a false picture of what this university truly is. This university has produced 20 percent of all the Native American doctors in this country. It also has over 25 programs designed specifically for Native Americans. The logo, which is at the center of this controversy along with the name itself, was designed by a respected Native American in the region...
...Collings, author of This Is Modern Art. Others call it an uplifting tribute to womankind. But more interesting than the reactions it provokes are the ones it doesn't. If the sculpture has met with less than universal acclaim, it has also failed to spark much outrage or spray-paint protest. In that sense, Alison Lapper Pregnant may reveal a city and a society more comfortable with itself than it has been for a long time...
Putting Bugs in the Paint...
...probably never thought your average house paint could help solve the world energy crunch. But Michael Flickinger, 54, founding director of the University of Minnesota's Biotechnology Institute, has found a way to make hydrogen--and then electricity--from genetically engineered bacteria embedded in the adhesive latex polymer particles that form the basis of most paints. Thinly coated onto plastic or metals, the polymers, which are infused with bacteria, are permeable to gases and nutrients. The coatings--about two-thirds the thickness of a sheet of paper--jump to life when exposed to light and begin making hydrogen gas, which...