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...going to try to keep a dialogue with these universities, maybe point them to some authority that they've ignored or are not aware of, that tells them they have a higher responsibility than just putting their head in their sand," he said...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Universities Snub Napster Ban Request | 9/22/2000 | See Source »

...Sand Warriors Bondi Beach, Australia's most famous stretch of sand, is ready for its Olympics close-up. But some locals are still furious that the stadium built to host beach volleyball - the Games' flesh-baring party sport - has cut their beloved Bondi in half. After attempts to halt construction proved unsuccessful, activists have come up with a plan that calls for 1,000 people, armed with giant mirrors, to disrupt telecasts by flashing sunlight at television crews and into camera lenses. "We want the Olympic movement to reflect on its cultural imperialism," says Bondi councilor Dominic Wykanak. Unfortunately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympic Notebook | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...pain every morning. I'd wake up and feel fine, and then I'd be looking at my books and I'd remember her, and then I'd be ruined." He, his girlfriend and a 12-year-old boy had once written in fire with lighter fluid on the sand at Baker Beach during the summer solstice--the same time and place where he held the first Burning Man. "It was right out of the cinema," he says of that day on the beach with his girlfriend. "I said to myself, 'Don't look at her that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Behind Burning Man | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

Through repeated design "generations" that the researchers likened to Darwinian evolution, their computer sought the "fittest" offspring--ones that could crawl the farthest in a given time. One creation shuffled along like a crab. Another left markings in the sand with its snakelike contractions. The best design turned out to be a pyramidal-shaped creature that pushed itself along with a shovel-like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Robot Out of Cyberspace | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...truth is that Australians tend to be natural pagans. Everything favors this: the delicious climate of the coasts, where most of us live; the dramatic and seductive landscapes of pounding surf and golden sand; the tanned bodies strutting; the food (some of the finest and most inventive in the world); and the wines, which are superb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Australia | 9/1/2000 | See Source »

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