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...about the state of our souls is enough to make one cringe. First of all, who are they? What moral qualifications do they bring to the work of the spirit? Upon hearing he had been named Prime Minister, Disraeli exclaimed, "I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!" -- perhaps the most apt description ever of the politician's vocation. Climbing greasy poles is dirty business. It requires a willingness to step on other pole huggers and a certain insouciance about the various moral stains thus acquired. It is hardly a school for spirituality...
...Browsers might end up staring at an empty physics lab in Norway or a blank chalkboard in Israel. But already CU-SeeMe promises low-cost video conferencing for students, journalists and the dateless. Using the new system, Chicago scientists recently made history's first video link to the South Pole, where a local trudged through a mile and a half of -60C tundra to talk face to face on the region's only Macintosh...
...dreamscape. They have sad eyes or pinheads or faces on the backs of their heads, or they wander about pensively on stilt legs, passersby in the parade of life. They somnambulate while the acrobats somersault on a trampoline bent up at the ends, as others jump from one vertical pole to another using only leg power -- and that gorgeous bungee ballet of angels unfolds to Rene Dupere's ethereal music. For this powerful, beautifully designed fantasy, applause is unworthy. Awe will...
...Water Pole at Northern Division...
...Water Pole...