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...Genberg's other brainchild, the Otter Inn, tel: (46-21 830023), is a hotel room set on a 25-sq-m floating platform in the middle of Lake Mälaren, near Västerås. The inn, which is accessible only by boat, sleeps two in a steel tank under the water. Expect to be closely observed here as well: panoramic windows in all directions allow passing fish to scrutinize dozing occupants. Once again, guests choosing the deluxe option will have their meals and bed linen delivered, but there's a kitchenette above the waterline for those...
Running, however, was something Smarty almost never got a chance to do. During a training session last July, he reared up in the starting gate and struck his head on an overhanging piece of steel. He collapsed with skull fractures and swelling so bad that his left eye protruded from its socket. He regained consciousness in the 45-minute ride to the veterinary center and impressed his handlers by trotting blithely in to see the doctor. By November he was well enough to run--and win--his first race. Seven races later he has yet to lose...
...Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles right now and you can see one of the most merciless cultural products of the 1960s, Carl Andre's 6 x 6 Den Haag Steel Lock, a mat of 36 steel plates arranged to form a black square. First assembled in 1968, it remains to this day one of the bluntest things that have ever presumed to radiate the aura of an art object--which may be what was bothering a recent visitor to the show "A Minimal Future? Art as Object: 1958-1968." The art lover, a guy who looked...
...wholesome bosom of Kansas but in the cold heart of Stalin's Soviet Union? Wearing a hammer and sickle on his chest instead of an S, Superman befriends Stalin and succeeds him when the Soviet leader dies. (Stalin, Millar notes astutely, is Russian for "man of steel.") With his rigid notions of right and wrong, telescopic sight and super-hearing that can pick up a counter-revolutionary conversation half a world away, Superman becomes a terrifying global dictator, a nightmare fusion of Nietzsche's Ubermensch and Orwell's Big Brother. If absolute power corrupts absolutely, superpower corrupts--well, even more...
...from the FBI and giving it to a new agency modeled after Britain's MI5 would undermine post-9/11 intelligence-agency reforms and would not be a positive move. A new government entity cannot help prevent another 9/11. The best possible strategy for handling terrorist threats is to steel our resolve, use our common sense and not repeat the actions that led a former FBI official to say, "We did not know what we knew." M. SALEEM CHAUDHRY Chicago...