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...galleries will make the artists happy. They are plain, well-lit boxes, with floors of unsanded white oak or polished concrete. There's not a remarkable thing about them, which means it will be easier for the unusual artistic conjunctions the Tate has conjured to jump forward. The art, all post-1900, is organized by subject rather than chronology. There will be nudes and still-life, landscape and history paintings. Thus Richard Long's work Red Slate Circle (1988) is exhibited below Monet's Water-Lilies (after 1916). Pieces by two artists, working at different ends of the century with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Industrial Revolution | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

...Sources: Plain Dealer, Encyclopedia Americana (phone); Detroit News, Times-Picayune (lottery); AP (coaster), Houston Chronicle (India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: May 22, 2000 | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

Well, don't start your dig just yet. PCs may be great for solitary pursuits, composing Powerpoint presentations or writing. But as long as co-workers need to brainstorm, bat around ideas and just plain gossip, they will always return to the water cooler, choosing a little face-to-face time over e-mail and the Web. Says Christine Albertini, vice president of advanced concepts at office-furniture maker Steelcase: "The basic nature of work is social...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will Our Offices Look Like? | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

What lies ahead for ballroom dancing at Harvard? Could an event that calls Lowell Lecture Hall its home arena, that owes a part of its popularity to the re-release of "Dirty Dancing," that is occasionally described as "stripteasy," someday find itself on the same plain of athletic recognition as football or soccer...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Ballroom Two-stepping Between Sport and Passion | 5/17/2000 | See Source »

...arid, sparsely populated plain around the village of Badme may not be much of a prize, but that hasn't stopped Ethiopia and Eritrea from sacrificing more men in battles for its control than the U.S. lost during the Vietnam War. (And, of course, the U.S. wasn't facing the prospect of hundreds of thousands of its citizens' dying of starvation back home.) The two countries exchanged heavy fire Tuesday as Ethiopia pressed its advance into territory seized by Eritrea in 1998, and the U.S. moved to win support for a U.N. Security Council arms embargo - having failed last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Ethiopia and Eritrea Battle Over a Dry Crust | 5/16/2000 | See Source »

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