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...hard to imagine, for instance, a more thorough rethinking of what makes a building than a project they completed for the Swiss Expo 02. The Blur Building, as it was called, was a "structure" made entirely of water vapor, produced by a framework of 31,000 computer-controlled spray nozzles configured on a multilevel platform in the middle of Lake Neuchâtel, near the town of Yverdon-les-Bains, and linked to the shore by a walkway. Visitors could approach and enter this hovering fog bank while asking themselves high-minded questions like, What really is an enclosure? Where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: First Thinking, Then Building | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...forms: epic and the intimate. Nashville, a Doomsday kaleidoscope set to country music, splashed the whole South with his wily cynicism; Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson said that American history was a lie dressed up in showbiz frills; and A Wedding, his black spray-paint on a four-tier nuptial cake, contained 48 characters, for no better reason than that Nashville had had 24. But there was a quieter, artsier side to Altman, evident in his eerie, miniature studies of women on the verge of madness That Cold Day in the Park, Images...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembering Robert Altman | 11/21/2006 | See Source »

...joined their battle kits. Stratford, N.J., mom Marcelle Shriver recently got a call from her son Todd requesting ... Silly String. Marines working with his unit in Iraq had shown the Army combat engineer how it can be used to detect trip wires. Before searching buildings, for example, personnel spray doorways from at least 10 ft. away with streams of foam--and see if they're snagged by barely visible wires, which are often affixed to bombs. The Army acknowledges the off-label use, and Marine spokesman Captain Jay Delarosa says, "We force Marine trainees to improvise." Shriver is raising money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not So Silly String In Iraq | 11/19/2006 | See Source »

...same store also carried mosquito spray and those bug zappers that you plug into a power outlet, hoping it will kill all the mosquitoes in the room. Having been massacred by mosquitoes the night before despite smearing myself with repellent, I piled half a dozen zappers onto the counter, along with a loaf of bread, some cheese and crackers and some bottles of water. The woman at the register proceeded to wipe the dust off each item in turn before ringing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Booming India, Short on Malls | 11/16/2006 | See Source »

...Harvard TB vaccine spray is an early breakthrough in that effort. It seems likely that the spray will soon travel from Edwards’ lab north of the Yard to South Africa—one of MEND’s bases—and beyond...

Author: By Nicholas M. Ciarelli and Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: A New Deal On Lifesaving Drugs | 11/13/2006 | See Source »

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