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...Minutes (FM): How did the idea for “Naming the World” come about?Bret A. Johnston (BJ): An editor approached me about doing it, and I thought it was a wonderful idea. When that editor couldn’t make it happen, I went to Random House and they immediately jumped on it. After that, it was really a dream project. I got to contact all these writers that I admired...For example, when I asked Joyce Carol Oates, she agreed to help and also told me about all these other people that I could try.2.FM...
...entered the basement of the Ba’ath Party Regional Command Headquarters in April 2003, he found papers strewn all over the floor. American soldiers had been there first, looking for weapons. They had pulled down shelves and left the regime’s official records scattered in random piles. Only weeks after the fall of Baghdad, Makiya, an Iraqi expatriate and Harvard researcher, had returned to his hometown to continue a process he began 30 years before—gathering the memory of his country...
...house dances, and then outdoes itself with the special seizure effects. The only problem is that the effects come too late to save the first half of the video, which drags on slightly longer than necessary. Ultimately, the FX may be worth the retina pain. Although it seems random at first, the psychedelic backdrop moves in time and in sync with the artists, scrambles your mind if you watch it in conjunction with the choreography, and will leave no doubt in your spasmodic brain that Gnarls Barkley knows visual effects. —Jenny...
...will you ensure that the NBA doesn't face baseball's problem with steroids? -Mike Diaz, Brooklyn, N.Y.We test every athlete four times, at random, between the beginning of training camp and the end of the postseason. We contract that work out to an independent agency. We think it's working pretty well, although you never know until you read the newspapers...
...Tussaud's imparts a lesson to the schoolkids and tourists who tramp through its labyrinthine exhibits, it's about the pre-eminence of pop culture, and the random nature - and transience - of fame. Hollywood A-listers, sports people and British royals hog the limelight. There are 400-odd figures on show, but all scientific endeavor is represented by Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking, Charles Darwin, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and TIME's Person of the Century, Albert Einstein, who share a small annex with Vincent Van Gogh, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde. In the dim light of the first gallery...