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...Seascapes, another of Sugimoto's most famous series, are photographs of horizons, where the water meets the sky, taken all over the world, in all types of weather. From afar, they are pure blocks of contrasting shade. Light on top, dark on the bottom (or sometimes, intriguingly, the reverse), they look at first like little more than a homage to Mark Rothko's color-field painting. But up close, each photo is marvelously detailed. Wisps of clouds are clearly defined and individual wave crests reflect the sun at different but interlacing angles. Displayed together so that the horizons all line...
...years," says Larry Ginsburg, a financial planner in Oakland, Calif. In the downturn of 2001-02, American Funds' Investment Co. of America ($78 billion) fell just 9.7% a year as the market dropped 17.2% a year. Since then, the fund has risen 14% a year, just a shade behind the market's 14.8% annual return. Growth Fund of America, more hard-charging, fell at the same rate as the market during the decline but since then has beat it handily, rising 19% a year. Over the past 15 years, $100 invested in Growth Fund would have grown...
...also for those who like shiny things. In addition to the bling, which awkwardly adorns the neck of a skinny white guy, there are somersaulting planes of greenish light at random points, and the oddly Britney Spears-esque chorus is sung by translucent hologram faces in the same shade of green superimposed over the more corporeal band members. It’s difficult to say whether this dubious move was made to provide visual interest or because none of the band members wanted to be associated with the chorus (I would understand the latter). What is clear is that Mike...
When University of Pennsylvania administrators encourage undergrads to practice protected sex, they probably don’t have a window shade in mind.But after the publication of photos depicting a couple in the act taken through an uncovered window sparked a campus scandal about free speech, Penn might consider talking to students about more than just condoms.A junior engineering major who took the photos posted two of them in September on his personal, password-protected university website, although the login was available on his AOL Instant Messenger profile, the Daily Pennsylvanian—Penn’s student newspaper?...
...York City's Madison Square Park. The Shake Shack serves up affordable fare like cheeseburgers, crinkle-cut fries, hot dogs, frozen custard, beer and even breakfast?you can eat your warm heirloom apple fritter and Shack-a-ccino (total: $5.31) on a folding plastic chair under the shade of a tree. In nearby Bryant Park stand four 'wichcraft kiosks, offering such gourmet handheld meals as stone-ground grits ($4) and marinated white anchovy sandwiches ($8). Owner Tom Colicchio (Craft and Gramercy Tavern) also has an outpost on a Tribeca street corner and even caters to Hampton Jitney passengers...