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...used to assigning the same density of meaning (or lack of it) to a pot or a cigarette case as to a painting. Few visitors, for instance, will find their hackles raised by the inclusion of those essential emblems of California street art, the custom car and the hot rod. But if anything, the trouble is that the show seems rather weak on them. Good that it includes Road Agent, a fabulously slick tomato of a chariot built and lacquered by Ed ("Big Daddy") Roth, dean of car customizers, back in 1963. But if there's one custom...
...Rod (The guys I came out with from New York) would be a little perplexed, but I could figure out an excuse and leave a note at the condo before I left. When I got home I could send out a preemptive e-mail to everyone whom I (stupidly) had told about the trip. My wife knows me well enough, she wouldn't say a word, she'd just let me sleep it off. Nobody really cares about biathlon anyway. I could make up whatever I want.... Say that I did really well. They wouldn't even be able...
...year-old system of government. (To the Manx, Britain is not the mainland; the island is the mainland, and Britain is obliquely referred to as "across," as in "What's the weather like across?") True, this separateness has encouraged only slow social change: birching, or beating with a birch rod, for crimes of violence against a person was still going strong in the 1970s, homosexuality was not legalized until 1992 and abortion has been permitted for mothers at risk only since 1995. Crime levels belong to '50s Britain, and even a minor mugging will make the front page...
...pollen, royal jelly and "stabilized oxygen." His site--filled with useful links, cautionary notes and essays on treatments ranging from aromatherapy to wild-yam cream--is widely cited by doctors and medical writers and draws 100,000 hits a month. It has also made Barrett a lightning rod for herbalists, homeopaths and assorted true believers, who regularly vilify him as dishonest, incompetent, a bully and a Nazi...
...cover just the social studies and the humanities, he figured he needed to buy the rights to 50,000 books and to digitize them. It took 10 months to find his first investor, Compaq co-founder Rod Canion, who put in $5 million of the initial $45 million raised in 1999. Questia has signed 200 publishers to date and offers 40,000 books and 4,000 journal articles. The digitization process involved shipping the books--including tomes by George Washington from 1750--to the Philippines, where 6,000 workers ripped them up for scanning...