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...best sculptors, of course, have always valued craft: good making, consummate skill. Quite often in America, those responsibilities were delegated to fabricators, as in most Minimalism. But the special intensity of Puryear's work comes from doing everything himself, mainly in wood (though tar, mud and wire also figure in his repertoire). Through the action of the shaping hand on wood, he brings forth a poetry of material substance that's unique in today's America. Puryear has always been troubled by the art/craft division in American culture. "At bottom it's a class issue really," he says. "'Art' means...
Trained from childhood, Bello, 32, has a grounding in almost every circus skill. This is one of the things that separate him from those of us who found our way to clowning from the theater. He is an incredible acrobat (and one of the strongest men I've ever known), and so when he does a bit about setting up a trampoline, of course he gets in trouble and finds some great gags. He's caught in the springs, first his foot, then his whole body, but he finishes with world-class trampoline work--going breathtakingly high, swooping into...
...citizens of developing nations, the outlook (and the answer) is very different. The creation of genetically modified foods - like drought-resistant corn, for example, or super-nutritional rice - holds enormous promise for developing nations. But even as scientists develop GM crops with ever-increasing precision and skill, there is growing concern that first world disquiet over food safety and genetic engineering may slow or even stop the dissemination of bountiful GM crops to the countries where they are most needed...
...privacy advocates and watchdog groups sounded the alarm, saying that for the most part, companies would continue to treat their customers' financial information as if it were corporate property. And as the notices--a billion of them--reached mailboxes this year, the groups turned their ire to companies' skill at obfuscating the matter. "The notices are deceptive, I think intentionally so," says Ed Mierzwinski of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. "The consumer's right is buried after pages of gibberish...
...already had part of the answer. Patient study had revealed that some orangutans were avid tool users, for example employing short sticks to shave stinging hairs from the fat-loaded fruit of the neesia tree. This was a skill that seemed taught by one generation to the next, not inherited. In other words, the orangutans had culture, previously the single greatest distinguishing mark of humanity...