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...Open Window, 1905, as he is creating the speckled, radically colored world of Fauvism at Collioure in the south of France; in the great "decorative" paintings of 1908-12 like Conversation; in the astoundingly bare and mysterious French Window at Collioure, 1914; and so on to the palm tree that, like a firework in the garden, fills the window of Interior with an Egyptian Curtain, 1948, its explosive light seeming to cast an inky black shadow under the bowl of fruit. The room is culture; the window frames nature; it is a kind of picture-within-a-picture, another trope...
There was much optimism in Africa in the 1970s, in the first full decade or two after the granting of independence. Africa had its Golconda of commodities -- cocoa, coffee, copper and palm oil -- and their prices were high. Africans borrowed against those prices; the world happily lent. Unlike other countries now heavily indebted, African nations owe the bulk of their debt to First World governments, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank rather than to commercial banks and other private creditors...
...fateful chain reaction, seismologists believe, started in April, when an earthquake of 6.3 magnitude rattled the vicinity of Palm Springs and Joshua Tree National Monument. On a map, the fault that was then broken looks like a shotgun taking dead aim at Landers, and in fact it was. Two months later, a minor earthquake started on a fault with no name. For a few seconds, this temblor rattled at a magnitude of 3. Suddenly, seismometer readings soared as the fracture unzipped a sequence of larger faults nearby. Then three hours after the Landers earthquake shivered to a stop...
More important, it could provide a way to store moving pictures, which require large amounts of data, on conventional compact discs, to be played back by computers or on television sets. A palm-size disk could hold 17 hours of programming. It works like other magneto-optical disks: a laser heats and magnetizes the disk surface, then another laser reads the magnetized spots. But while current systems use lenses to focus the laser, this one funnels the light through an optical fiber that has been stretched 1,000 times as thin as a human hair -- a much tighter focus than...
Sulzberger sent another signal of his openness just after the paper ran a now notorious piece describing the wild streak of the alleged victim in the Palm Beach rape case. Many reporters, Quindlen says, thought she was nuts to write a column saying that the article was beneath the Times's standards. But, she recalls, "the next time I saw Arthur in the newsroom, he came up to me and, in a loud voice, told me that he was proud that I had spoken...