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...project features an actual crane which lowers a Plexiglas box full of prosthetic legs into a seven-by-seven foot hole in the ground which is then covered with dirt by an excavator. Meanwhile, four monitors on either side of the hole display videotaped images concerning Merriman's personal search into what happens in the afterlife. The images, shot at various angles, include her little brother and sister playing, newly planted flowers, and views of unusual objects associated with death rituals, such as fabulously-designed coffins and factory-packaged embalming products. Concurrent with these video images, the viewer hears...
After an abortive search for a scholar to fill that chair, Harvard successfully encouraged the endowing family to divert the money to a Medical School project for the time being...
...information superhighway does its best to run in a straight line. A search for the word "hockey," will yield "puck.com"; searching for "weather" produces copious charts and myriad maps. Predictable. But throw a loaded word like "noir" into the query box, and suddenly this so-called super-highway has more twists and curves than the line for Space Mountain. "Noir" is certainly one of the most frequently used and misused terms in scholastic, artistic, and intellectual circles, and the Web proves no exception; a search turned up 1,664 sites that use the word in one capacity or another...
Before descending into the depths of internet weirdness, it's important to make a couple of distinctions. First off, about half of the responses to the "noir" web search were wine-related sites, dedicated to connoisseurs of the pinot noir vintage. Of the remaining 800 sites, maybe one fourth were French web sites simply using the word in its native context--for example "le rinoceros noir," an informative page dedicated to the black rhino. That leaves approximately 600 sites related to the conventional idea of noir, and of those sites, the majority were fairly ordinary, academically or intellectually-oriented pages...
Yahoo!, the éminence grise of search engines, may be grise no longer: It's heading into the shop for a redesign, and its signature default gray background is on the chopping block. "It's actually still on the table," says Tim Brady, VP in charge of production at Yahoo!, adding that "All the new browsers are defaulted to white anyway." This is Yahoo!'s first face-lift in over a year. Why? The new face of Yahoo! makes more of the site's content accessible from the front page, including news feeds and a link to its gaming site...