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What started as a random housing assignment for two incoming freshmen in 1983 has since turned into a public service organization that has helped over one million people and enlisted as many volunteers...
Ripley, a senior writer at TIME, covers homeland security and risk. This article is adapted from The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why. ? 2008 by Amanda Ripley. To be published by Crown Publishers, a division of Random House Inc. On sale June...
Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are By Rob Walker Random House; 291 pages...
...star of his play.) Rudin tries to translate the profound emotions from that play into language the children can comprehend, comparing the main character's grief at the death of her husband to the pain children feel at the death of a pet. "Nothing is done at random," says Andes. "All our guest have significant ties to each other. We make connections...
Rauschenberg's early thinking crystallized in the late 1940s and early '50s at Black Mountain College, where he shared ideas with the composer John Cage, who was using chance and randomness as operating principles in his art. One famous Cage composition, 4'33", was just four minutes and 33 seconds of nothing, in which the silence and whatever random noises people heard (or made) in an auditorium became the music...