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Crewdson returns again and again to the same territory, a scene from the suburbs or from rural America invaded by its desires and anxieties. A man attempts to lay lawn turf across the road in front of his house. A woman kneels in a flower garden that has sprung up in her kitchen. It's no surprise that he loves David Lynch. To get into Crewdson's perennial frame of mind, Lynch's Blue Velvet is recommended viewing. It's also not surprising that his father was a psychoanalyst, because Crewdson has the good Freudian's obsession with fetishes. Circles...
...American City,” was being considered by insiders as a top candidate to fill the role. But while the Harvard professor’s name is rumored to be on the lips of City Hall employees, Krieger himself said he is unclear where the speculation has sprung from. “I don’t believe I’m an actual candidate,” he said. “Now, [why] would I want to be a candidate? I have my hands full.” While some said the possibility of a Harvard insider...
...science played out not in a lecture hall, but on the pages of TIME, where practicing Christian and prominent geneticist Francis Collins faced off against Richard Dawkins, author of the best-selling “The God Delusion.” A host of competing theories have sprung up between the extremes of creationism and evolution, among them Theistic Evolution and Intelligent Design, but in the 150 years since Wilberforce met Huxley, the controversy has come no closer to even the most uneasy of resolutions. All of this makes the reemergence of aging entomologist Edward O. Wilson a welcome development...
...slowly into the chasm then be hauled up the other bank by chain and human hand. Kapuscinski details the setting and the inconvenience, then turns his attention to the men helping the passing vehicles, the women selling drinks or food to waiting drivers, the other little businesses that had sprung up, and the atmosphere of fellowship that had emerged around this abyss...
...past two years, dozens of websites with names like angelpartner.co.kr or helpmon.com have sprung up, offering anything from fake sons and daughters to fake boyfriends and fiancées. Many of the stand-ins are ordinary people who sign up to make a few extra bucks, and while most end up impersonating significant others, Bek Hui Sun, president of the year-old Seoul-based website Helpmon.com, notes that demand for parents-for-hire is growing. "The students really like this," says Bek. His company's site offers the services of nearly 3,000 members, some 40 of whom are willing...