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Touching down on the West Side of Manhattan in late winter was a wondrous new vehicle for transport to the stars: the Hayden Planetarium, centerpiece of the $210 million Rose Center for Earth and Space. The 87-foot aluminum sphere that is the Hayden's core seemed to float inside a 10-story glass-walled cube, which is the Hayden's outer shell. "A cosmic cathedral," was how architect James Polshek proudly described his creation. A planetarium is, of course, only a transmitter of outer space to those of us on terra firma. By contrast, the new space station...
...matter what the vice president chooses to do over the next several years, friends and advisers suspect he will keep at least one foot firmly planted in the political sphere - and his name and likeness highly visible. And while the sting of his defeat at the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court may linger, he can take some comfort in new numbers released Tuesday by the Gallup Organization. According to the granddaddy of polls, Gore's approval rating has shot up in the days since he gave his concession speech. Fifty-seven percent of Americans polled regard him favorably, versus...
...ROSE CENTER FOR EARTH AND SPACE The new planetarium addition to New York City's Museum of Natural History is a 21st century update of an 18th century dream. Architect James Stewart Polshek's simple design, a metal sphere set in a mostly glass cube, is a homage to the unbuilt ball that Etienne-Louis Boullee conceived in 1784 as a memorial to Sir Isaac Newton. It tells of the grandeur of the universe itself, speaking in the language of both classic modernism and very high tech...
...makes a doubtful leading man around which to anchor the production. He quickly forgets to affect drunkenness and in his black sneakers, black jeans, too-long belt and skinny tie, he looks more like a reject from a ska band than anyone who would be comfortable in the domestic sphere. Stephen Quinlan '04 is a high point as Jeremiah, the aforementioned smug butler; he carefully tries to integrate his often detached-sounding spoken lines into a coherent dramatic performance...
...while students bemoan the loss of the Scour Exchange platform, at least two companies are now bidding for Scour's assets, hoping to revive the company's software and tap into the revenue potential they say still exists in the online digital media sphere...