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...curriculum can never be static.,” he said. “Knowledge is changing at an incredible rate...
Finally, Derrick Sellers’s “Warning: This May Cause” rebels against static views of dance with daring style and eclectic sound. A rock ballet, the piece features music by Björk and techno artist Aphex Twin...
...Jeopardy” contest. Instantly she set about making her three-minute videotape. She set up the camera by the Charles and, while getting strange stares from passersby—showed off her question asking talents. “I had someone hook me up to a static electricity machine to make the clue come to life. It made my hair stand on end,” she explains...
Sadly, after a night of terror, the fridge was never recovered. A few days later, however, an indecipherable message was left on the H-12 answering machine, which, although composed mostly of static, seems to sound like the phrase “Schuyler, the fridge is in the library.” To the utterly obsessed Stefen and Mark, who tried playing the message back at a slower speed in order to make out the words, this event was riveting. And the search continues...
Dusk was falling last Tuesday when news of the attack on America first reached this war-ruined city, Kabul. In the dusty twilight, Afghans held radios to their ears, listening to static-filled accounts on the Voice of America and the BBC Pashto- and Persian-language services. Because the country's Taliban rulers forbid television, Afghans could see no pictures of the destruction that had people everywhere else glued to their sets. The immensity of the World Trade Center had to be described. When Afghans asked me about the Twin Towers, I compared them to Afghanistan's giant Bamiyan Buddha...