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...some places are permanently in drought. "The continuous drip feeding of drought relief just helps people with little hope of recovery to hang on a bit longer," he wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald. "It seems designed to maximize their misery and the land degradation they cause as they scratch out a living on farms that are too small to be viable." Water management expert Cullen and his colleagues expect the country to get hotter and drier. Climate scientists say the future's bleak unless farmers, consumers and governments adapt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Farmers Get Hooked on the Dollar Drip | 10/23/2006 | See Source »

...like the grown-up, version of Boston’s Museum of Science. The six artists displayed play with the senses to create an interactive, intriguing commentary on the way new interactive technologies are changing the way art is experienced. Tactics as diverse as Scratch-N-Sniff inspired walls, a “touch-tunnel” filled with darkness, sounds, and a strobe light, and Bruce Nauman’s attempts to “see the night” help to propel the viewer through a tumultuous journey that challenges vision’s dominance of vision over...

Author: By Kimberly E. Gittleson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Please Stop to Smell the Art | 10/19/2006 | See Source »

...just need a bit of additional information; others might require some revisions,” Kenen wrote. Administrators are currently ironing out the details of how the Registrar’s office will track students’ secondary fields. “Implementing a new curricular initiative from scratch involves many background details that students don’t think about (nor should they have to),” Kenen wrote. “The time-frame for the implementation of secondary fields is actually going quite well, even though it may not seem that way from the perspective...

Author: By Johannah S. Cornblatt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Secondary Field Proposals Flood In | 10/16/2006 | See Source »

...road, probably the most expensive and certainly the only one of its kind. All of which made the company's decision to give the keys to a journalist with an expired license and no insurance a bit questionable. After parking the car at the test track--without a scratch--I asked Fujimoto, a lead designer of the FCX, what he thought of my driving. "I was just praying," he said, "Please don't break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto: Honda's Drive | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

Hard-shell bags offer additional protection to fragile belongings and any containers of liquids that you were forced to check. Japanese designer Hideo Wakamatsu's brightly colored scratch-resistant trolley cases ($200-$300) feature smooth magnetic locks and four soft, silent polyurethane wheels recessed into the frame to avoid damage in transit. For travelers with nothing to hide, his Skeleton trolley ($400) is made of superstrong, see-through thermoplastic framed in anodized aluminum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Tough Is Your Luggage? | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

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