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...Ford Motor Co. commissioned Sheeler to spend six weeks photographing Ford's immense new River Rouge assembly plant near Detroit. Ford Plant, River Rouge, Criss-Crossed Conveyors, one of the most famous images in 20th century photography, divides the plant into a multitude of planes, angles and openings with an unmistakable resemblance to the buttresses and steeples of a soaring medieval church. It's no surprise that the next lengthy photo series that Sheeler worked on was a study of the great French cathedral at Chartres. He had already treated the Ford plant as a house...
What's the advantage? Conventional vaccines are costly to make and distribute in the impoverished Third World countries that need them most. That's why Arntzen and others began thinking about using plants instead of needles, creating vaccines that would be easy to grow locally in, say, Vietnam or Bangladesh. He focused on diarrhea, because, says Arntzen, "diarrheal diseases kill at least 2 million people in the world every year, most of them children." And he chose tomatoes because greenhouse-grown tomatoes can't easily pass their altered genes to other crops and because tomato-processing equipment is relatively cheap...
...thus becoming the first Baltic state to purchase the high-tech weaponry. Under the agreement, the Lithuanians will acquire 60 missiles at a cost of $31 million over three years. Lithuanian officials say the Stingers will reinforce the country's airborne defenses and help protect the Ignalina nuclear power plant from attack. But from whom? With the exception of terrorists, Baltic officials are careful to sidestep questions about just who they are defending themselves against. The Baltic states say they have been told NATO won't accept members who import new security risks into the alliance, so governments figure...
...railway authorities used high-volume broadcasts of Bach's organ music and Mozart's doom-laden opera Don Giovanni to clear Copenhagen's main station of drunks and junkies. If things get really bad, they can always play The Ketchup Song.There was no al-Qaeda dirty bomb, no chemical plant disaster, no towering inferno. None of the worst-case scenarios imagined by tabloid journalists and military planners ahead of the U.K.'s first fire-services strike in 25 years came to pass. But as the 48-hour shutdown ended, there was no collective sigh of relief either. With the Fire...
...Director Jira Malikul's whimsical feature posits that the fireballs are set off by Lao monks, not soldiers. The dreamy opening sequence follows loincloth-clad divers as they plant clay "eggs" along the riverbed. Illuminated boats sweep by above, lighting up the expectant faces of the throng assembled along the riverbank. Then the pink fireballs burst skyward from the water to resounding cheers. The mythical snake is breathing fire again, welcoming the Buddha back to earth...