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...stunning new museum closes at 5 p.m. (it is a superb collection—most faculty and students go once, to show visitors). There are some classrooms in dys-Allston, but since courses ended by 4 p.m., the rooms are dark except for the blackboard washer. An occasional bike rider zips down an empty street on her way “back” to Harvard Square. Looming big-block buildings maximize floor space. These buildings of glass and steel carry strong, welcoming sandstone entryways announcing the Harvard X, Y, or Z-nomics Center. The only sounds are those...

Author: By Peter L. Galison | Title: Allston Dreams | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

Want to live the life of a celebrity? At the Hotel Sax Chicago, guests can buy the Celebrity Rider package and receive the same VIP treatment their favorite entertainers get in their contract riders when they travel for a performance. J. Lo's white-flower obsession? Madonna's need for workout equipment in her room? The hotel will research whatever the requested celebrity is entitled to and provide those extras to travelers, says Mark van Hartesvelt, president of Gemstone Resorts International, based in Park City, Utah, which owns the property. The cost per stay could be in the thousands, depending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Your Service | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

...Unlike an astronaut-training simulator or other virtual reality systems which allow multiple degrees of stomach-turning motion - forward and backward, up and down, side to side, pitch, roll and yaw - this simulator only allows for pitch. But in clever combination with a powerful Buttkicker audio system, which lets riders feel sound, strong vibrations, timed seat compressions and video cues, the rider is tricked into feeling acceleration, G-forces and weightlessness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space Travel on a Shoestring | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

...Proving his point, the good-humored artist was in Sydney last week to open his latest exhibition, which shows that there is indeed a world beyond art fairs and biennales. As his indonesian holden rider society T shirt indicated, Kesminas has been spending time with Australia's northern neighbors, and while on a residency at Yogyakarta's Indonesian Art Institute in 2005, the artist hooked up with some like-minded students to form the garage band Punkasila. Their name is a punk play on founding President Sukarno's five pillars of nationhood, Pancasila; just as playfully, the band like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exploding with Laughter | 5/1/2007 | See Source »

...Crimson, winner of five of the last 11 Ancient Eight titles, closed its season yesterday with a 4-3 win over Northeastern. The Tigers, owners of the league’s other six NCAA berths during that span, finish up today at home against Rider...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: IN LEHMAN'S TERMS: Parity Strikes Baseball Ranks | 5/1/2007 | See Source »

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