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...Emphatically, unhesitatingly, resoundingly, unflinchingly, invariably, profoundly yes. NASA and its quest to fufill its mission represents all that is highest and most noble in the panorama of human possibilities and conditions. To dream and to strive to realize a dream is to understand and share the most fundimental thoughts of God. Christopher Smythe Topeka, Kans...
...photographs were taken with a Japanese Art Panorama camera, a replacement for Wenders’s stolen Russian Horizon camera. The Art Panorama, however, was extremely heavy, and the Aboriginals with whom Wenders traveled gave him the name “the madman with the camera.” Wenders defended his choice of cameras in the companion book to the exhibition, Wim Wenders: Photos...
...Bonn from around Germany to send their children to the school. Classes are taught in Arabic and, as in Saudi schools, the curriculum is based on Wahhabism, a rigorous brand of Islam that accepts the Koran as literal truth. Concerns about the academy peaked in early October when Panorama, a popular tele-vision program, aired a video purporting to show the school's Imam and teacher, Anas Bayram, telling parents how to train their children in spear throwing, swimming and horseback riding in order to prepare for jihad. Bayram denies that he was urging violence, saying he only meant...
...with the included software. The image-editing tools, used to touch up pictures once you have scanned them, can be complicated. The Instant Share feature, which lets you scan and e-mail pictures on the fly, doesn't allow you to crop pictures before you send them. And the Panorama Maker program, which is supposed to let you scan segments of large things like maps and posters and then "stitch" the images back into a coherent whole, doesn't always reassemble the images quite right...
...running out of strength, canvas, paint, alcohol, morphine and time. The show's keynote is the 1.39-m-by-3.75-m Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (1898) from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Intended as Gauguin's final testament, the panorama "reads" from right to left, from infancy to death. The despairing figure of old age, seated with head in hands, echoes the position of a Peruvian mummy Gauguin saw at the Paris Exposition of 1889, the colonial extravaganza that was one of the catalysts for his Tahitian wanderlust. The piece will...