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...each week and knows the wrestlers by name. The other? A girl reporter straight out of boarding school who worried about the possibility of getting soiled by wrestler sweat. Well have full coverage for you in an upcoming issue....And for those of you not titillated by pop culture phenomena, well have you enraptured too: look for a special interview with Jane Campion, director of The Piano and Holy Smoke, in January....Have you ever tried explaining instant replay to somebody who has never heard of it before? My cousin and I tried it the other day when our Indian...
...time of Thanksgiving, when students often face the sometimes less-than-desirable prospect of going home for the holidays, the phenomena of burnout begin to become manifest," Ducey says. "The weeks between Thanksgiving and the winter holidays are often the most critical period for students' recognition that their fall semester feels dangerously out of control...
...themselves, how they conquered the world and filled every last inch of psychic space. It travels from the Kodak Brownie, the memory toy that let everyone commemorate the everyday, to the computer manipulations that turn pictures into smooth lies. This is history that gives more time to mass-market phenomena and socially concerned work than anything formalist, unengaged or inward. So LIFE magazine, tabloids and the child-labor photos of Lewis Hine are all nicely served. Minor White, Garry Winogrand, Diane Arbus and William Eggleston rate less than a shutter click of mention. That's not the whole picture...
This bot-driven universe won't arrive until a few kinks have been ironed out. Right now, says Jeff Kephart, manager of the agents and e-merchant phenomena group at IBM, price bots don't understand that undercutting your competitor is not always smart. "This gives rise to price wars," says Kephart, who in tests has watched the sell bots give the store away in a competitive frenzy. "They're pretty dumb," he notes. "We have to give them a sense of anticipation...
Researchers at Harvard and throughout the United States believe that primate research is vital to understanding certain diseases and phenomena, Gibbons said...