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...These two complementary and beautifully produced books belong to Wolf's larger, long-term project of documenting his adopted city. The slimmer volume, Outside, brings together his depictions of Hong Kong's hulking, close-packed apartment complexes, seen as megaliths and reduced to hard graphic planes. In page after page of images framed to reveal neither sky nor street, the viewer perceives not Hong Kong's iconic skyline but only dizzyingly repetitive patterns of verticals, both impressive and oppressive in their tyrannical two-dimensionality...
When Ella was overweight, Felitti learned, her husband was less suspicious. And her fear of his rage - perhaps he saw her new slimmer weight as a provocation? - was probably spurring her anxiety. (See a special report on the science of appetite...
Consolidation has increasingly been an answer to slimmer FAS budgets. With support from Dean of the College Evelyn Hammonds, the Office of International Programs moved its offices closer to the Office of Career Services. In this “neighborhood,” as they call it, staff are sharing and coordinating duties...
...well intentioned—improving social space on campus is an important issue—the UC was in over its head and now must accept that its credibility will suffer. Now the campaign will continue under the direction of the Student Community Center Foundation, but with an even slimmer possibility of success, facing the same hurdles as before but with less legitimacy. At the same time, the effort implicitly carries the UC’s stamp of approval, involves UC members, and was founded with UC resources, so the ongoing failure of this project will continue to damage...
...With pessimism about the recession reaching Malthusian proportions, the prospect of securing such a salary by landing a coveted consulting job is decidedly slimmer than in recent years. Even graduating students who have managed to finagle their way into finance realize that Wall Street is no longer (and perhaps never was) a stable route to mega-millions. Having dutifully planned out their lives based on assumptions of monetary success in the banking world, graduating students are finding that these assumptions no longer apply and, more often than not, that the banks no longer exist...