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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...factor: Beauty. Lowell looks good. Really, ridiculously good. That tower, the brick, the classic enclosed-quad design...if you want to show people a Harvard House, bring them here. This place was built to be gorgeous in green ivy and stunning in snow. If you want a stock Harvard story to tell, just give them the brief rundown of the famous Russian (now replica) bells. Lowell is built like a fortress, and on the inside it feels like a sanctuary from the hustle and bustle of Harvard life...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child | Title: The Housing Crisis: Lowell House | 3/14/2009 | See Source »

...many years of visiting Japan, I've learned not to be surprised by the juxtaposition of modernity and tradition, by an embrace of high-technology that coexists with a reverence for an older nation of cherry blossoms, hot springs and snow on maple trees. In an enigmatic way, this duality has not torn Japanese society apart but given it a remarkable stability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lessons From Japan | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...renting hives from 10 different states. Orin Johnson, whose family has been keeping bees around Hughson since the 1950s, remembers when beekeepers earned less than $10 per hive in pollination fees to supplement their main business: honey. "Almonds were nothing," says Johnson, examining some of his 700 hives, his snow white hair peeking out from beneath a green trucker hat. Today about 60% of Johnson's business is pollination. (The honey made from almond blossoms is too bitter to eat and is not harvested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Hughson | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...typically Europe. Thus we read of “Italian Bees Grazing a Table in August”; never mind that the fact that they are Italian has no discernible import for the poem. Similarly, in “Surgery,” “A dusting of snow / fastens to roofs / on a row of Delft houses.” In the first poem, “Ornament,” Nilsson informs her interlocutor that “Your heart is as large as an anthill in Switzerland”—presumably, the heart...

Author: By Keshava D. Guha, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nilsson's 'Abattoir' Proves Dull | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...made its mark with popular albums that mixed world-music elements with a lounge-y vibe. The international eateries serve up a pan-Asian menu and aesthetic that clearly uses the Buddha more as a cultural marker than as a religious icon. Restaurant souvenirs for sale include a Buddha snow globe - not the kind of thing a member of the faithful would be likely to purchase. Indeed, the Buddhist reverence toward compassion notwithstanding, a Middle Way might not be so easy to reach in the current climate in Jakarta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia Cracks Down on Offensive Hot Spot | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

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