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...disparate things together. Collage had been invented by Pablo Picasso, perfected by Kurt Schwitters and fetishized by the Surrealists. But they all practiced it on a more intimate stage. Working in the era of the Abstract Expressionists and their jumbo canvases, Rauschenberg built his works to a larger scale and gave them that industrial-strength name: combines...
...same is happening today with China, although mostly at the other end of the price and technology scale. Despite all of the babble about the supposed "junk" exported by China, I don't think too many Americans are sifting through the shelves at their local Wal-Mart and tossing aside products labeled "Made in China." The fact is that Chinese-made clothes, shoes, toys and appliances are cheap and for the most part of good enough quality for Americans to choose to buy them...
...inhabitants lay sleeping in the early morning hours of July 28,1976. Without warning, at 3:43 a,m., a massive earthquake ripped through the densely populated industrial center and left it a ruin of crumbled buildings, fallen smokestacks and heaps of rubble. Measuring 7,8 on the Richter scale, the quake leveled an area of 20 sq. mi., causing death and destruction without precedent in recorded history: as many as 750,000 are estimated to have died in the catastrophe...
...Still, no such program exists on a wide-scale basis for undergraduates. Regardless of the ultimate details of such a program, the need for a public service specific loan-repayment program is clear. It would enable students to pursue their ideal career without worrying about the monetary implications of the decision. Perhaps more importantly, it may even encourage students to take two years off and do charitable work before entering the for-profit workforce. Ultimately, it would allow some of our most crucial social institutions to have intelligent, motivated and driven college-graduates in their ranks...
Laputta should be the center for a gargantuan relief effort. Should be, but isn't. Trucks carrying food and water ply the rough road leading to this isolated town, but not in the large convoys associated with a disaster of this scale. Laputta's buildings are collapsed or roofless, its streets clogged with fallen trees, smashed boats, and the rain-soaked debris of thousands of desperate families. Local aid workers estimate that 12,000 people have died and 3,000 are missing in Laputta town and its immediate surroundings...