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...with museum wax, a substance that drips so slowly that changes to the work are barely noticeable until the next day. This installation gives the illusion of visual dynamism without physical movement. “The piece is in infinite, continuous flux,” says artist Sara J. Stern ’12, who tailored her work specifically to the space. “Transparency, reflection, shadow, and light are all central to [the piece].” Directly across from this sculpture, an enormous charcoal-on-paper piece utilizes traditional sketching and shadowing techniques to capture the versatility...
Love's experience became an enduring model for Washington czars: A large issue grabs the public's attention. The Administration has no solution - no popular one anyway. So the President names a czar. After a day or two of stern talk about crashing through bureaucratic walls and knocking pointy heads together, the czar gradually settles into lonely isolation in the Executive Office building, venturing out to give speeches at interest-group luncheons and perhaps shake hands with the President at a White House Christmas party. (See who's who in Obama's White House...
...growth too rapid. What's needed is technological innovation, green solutions as yet undreamt of, to utterly remake the way people use energy. Masdar's crash greening may be the future. "This is real, and it shows that they are thinking ahead in a constructive way," says Nicholas Stern, an influential British economist and advocate for action on climate change. "I'm very optimistic that this is happening." Given the challenge, the world needs all the optimism...
...away from me. The experience was epic, emotional, and quintessentially American. But I learned something else that Tuesday–about why the market needs to be regulated and why you need barriers at a Girl Talk concert. People may be honorable individually or in small groups, but without stern and threatening enforcement, you just can’t trust a mob. By failing to present more than a sparse, disorganized police force, the committee planning this inauguration put far too much faith in the goodwill of this crowd...
...mother (Teri Hatcher) and father (John Hodgman), she feels ignored by her stay-at-home, workaholic writer parents. Father, hunched over his PC, is a mild, preoccupied sort; but Mother has no milk-drop of the maternal instinct. She speaks to Coraline in the curt, distracted voice that a stern boss would use on a cleaning woman who had entered her office during a conference call. Mother is efficient, officious, utterly joyless; you couldn't make her smile if you handed her over to the Guantanamo tickling team...