Word: projects
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...would anyone who does not mind being tricked and teased by the architecture at almost every turn. The new building (paid for mainly by O.S.U. alumnus and Columbus-based retailer Leslie Wexner) may have been the perfect project for this hyperintellectualizing bad boy to prove himself on: it was conceived by the university as both a museum and a seedbed for avant-garde art, from Anselm Kiefer paintings to Pina Bausch performances to a new video installation that displays images from the building's surveillance cameras. Did the university want a fin-de-siecle monument to erudite monomania, inspired nervousness...
...East Boston. With a variety of neurological and cognitive tests, including exams of short-term memory and attention span, the team diagnosed "probable" Alzheimer's for 3% of those aged 65 to 74, 19% of the 75- to 84-year-olds and 47% of those 85 or older. The project was hailed as one of the first large surveys to go out into an ordinary community, as opposed to examining select populations in clinics or nursing homes. Some previous studies that did look at a community based their diagnoses on existing medical records, which are less reliable. By doing their...
...joint project of the U.S. Commerce Department and Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry, the study examined the comparative prices of 122 products ranging from catsup to cameras. The results: 84 items were priced higher in Japan's capital than in the Big Apple. The more dramatic examples included European spark plugs ($7.60 in Tokyo, $1.70 in New York), U.S.-made electric shavers ($90.15 vs. $44.95) and Australian bed linen ($63.40 vs. $20). The Bush Administration is likely to cite the survey as evidence that Japanese trade barriers hinder competition that would lead to lower prices in that...
...only through years of data that these conclusions could have been ultimately made," Huchra said. The astronomer said that when their project ends in 1992-93, he and Geller will have mapped more than 15,000 distant galaxies...
Dowling raised concerns about the possibility of further problems with work on the St. Paul's site project, which is scheduled to continue throughout the winter...