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...standard rectangular canvas, going instead for supports shaped like thunderbolts, clouds or shapes-with-no-name that she would combine sometimes into complicated puzzle pieces. Working in a jumped-up palette of citric yellows, Band-Aid pinks, acidic greens and plum purples, she made pictures that were semi-abstract, but full of teasing references to the outside world, like the outlines of shoes and tables. Or two conjoined canvases might take on the shape of a cup and saucer or a storm cloud. And everywhere there were hints of the human body. A comical bean shape might appear to reach...
Chris Goggin, who heads his own research and engineering company in Wilmington, N.C., is working on a different method of transmission; a radiowave-powered switch that can wirelessly control small devices such as locators or sensors. Goggin, a semi-finalist for the History Channel's annual Modern Marvels Invent Now Challenge this year, says state officials could get data from the sensors directly at the push of a button and a radio signal would act as a transmitter, putting the bridge's sensor information into an e-mail sent straight to their inbox. "You wouldn't need helicopters or lights...
...Democratic Senator Feingold was one of the President's only defenders on the Hill yesterday. On the other hand, Republican Senator David Vitter emerged from semi-seclusion to say he was "stunned? by Bush's veto threat, and accuse the President of abandoning Louisiana. It's true that the bill includes some projects to help restore Louisiana's vanishing coastal marshes and cypress swamps, which provide natural protection for New Orleans. (It's also true that Vitter had pushed to help timber firms to log those cypress swamps.) But as I explain in TIMR, the bill's main Louisiana project...
...lived for this moment, bearing the cynical attacks of car-bombs and terrorists, who had slaughtered more than 50 people who had rushed into the streets to celebrate after the country's soccer stars won a berth in the Asian Soccer Cup finals by beating 2006 World Cup semi-finalists South Korea. In Baghdad, people stocked up on gasoline for their generators (most of the capital gets only two hours of electricity per day and no one knows when the lights in their area will go out). Abu Ahmad, a taxi driver, described his preparations before the big game against...
...game-winner, a few rounds of Kalashnikov fire popped off around Baghdad. and then when the win came, the sustained artillery fire. But perhaps in deference to pre-game government warnings that celebratory gunfire would not be tolerated, the shooting subsided much sooner than it did after the big semi-final victory over South Korea. There were other ways to celebrate. Fans clapped and sang and danced in the streets. Some set off fireworks. Boys went door to door giving away free orange juice to mark the victory. In one neighborhood Iraqi police drove through the streets waving the Iraqi...