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...what really matters for Finlay are the stories behind a color: the thieves who conspired to steal the secret ingredients of an exquisite shade or the purple ooze of a rare sea snail or the red cochineal beetle that feeds off cactus. She traces why red ocher is sacred among Australian Aborigines, then jumps over to Renaissance Italy to muse on the unique blood-orange varnish that Stradivarius used to anoint his violins. Along the way, we learn that NapolEon could have died of arsenic poisoning from green wallpaper then in vogue. We are also taught that bureaucratic red tape...
...courts finally. Apparently, I’m 50 pounds overweight for a nationally competitive program. My 40-yard dash time of 8.6 seconds is described as “slower than a snail floating on a stream of molasses...
Another sad day has come for our comrades down in New Haven. Yale University has adopted new policies to severely restrict students’ use of Kazaa, a popular Internet file-sharing program. By limiting Kazaa connections to snail-like speeds and employing a private eye to spy on students’ music preferences, Yale is moving ever closer to the closed-minded, medieval mood that its architecture does so much to create...
What's driving the shift? Over the past year, electronic payment got a boost when the anthrax attacks elevated fear of using the mail, says Bill Nelson of the Electronic Payments Association. The hike in postal rates also hurt snail mail...
...More than 200 entries contest the World Snail Racing Championship at Congham, England, hoping to better the two-minute record for the 33-cm course...