Word: reckoning
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...demonic overextension of romanticism's untouched sublime, displaying a terrifying kudzu-like growth which crowds the visual plane with drooping, sinewy forms. David Akiba's superb nature photographs depict a similarly infernal tangle of branches, reminiscent of Jackson Pollock. Roxy Paine's naturalistic miniatures, as exacting as neoclassical gardens, reckon with human pollution: a plot of weeds behind glass is littered with wine bottles, candy wrappers and used condoms. And Michael Ashkin's model-like sculpture "No. 104" depicts a haunting aerial view of an industrial plant-human interference in the natural environment-overrun by oozing swampland. The unconscious emphasis...
...part, Lazio will be forced to reckon with his image as a lightweight. Interloper or not, Clinton is a formidable, occasionally forbidding public speaker, and her presence alone suggests a certain degree of seriousness. Not so Lazio - except among his die-hard supporters, the baby-faced congressman is not known for doing much other than running against Clinton. And while that characteristic is apparently compelling enough on its own to attract hefty contributions from swarms of anti-Clintonites, it's not enough to win the election...
...this century, if not sooner, biotechnology may have reached the point where it can take just about any DNA recipe and read off a passable 3-D interpretation of the animal it would create. After a massive amount of digital trial and error, the nerds reckon they have a recipe for a creature that would closely resemble a small, running dinosaur like Struthiomimus ("the ostrich mimic"). The rest is as easy as Dolly the sheep: call up a company that can synthesize the genome, stick it into an enucleated ostrich ovum, implant the same in an ostrich and sit back...
...total fund--on Internet companies in Asia and the U.S. In retrospect, the Asian financial crisis appears to have actually helped the business. "Everyone else was too distracted fixing problems to think about venture capital," Cheah says. There is a shortage of good prospects, however. Cheah and his backers reckon that they discard about 95% of the 300 or so business plans they see in a year. Nonetheless, Cheah predicts, "The number of Asian Internet IPOs in the region and on NASDAQ will at least quadruple over the next year...
With the first round on what is clearly its turf, the Big Red is going to be a force to reckon with...