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...operate in British Columbian waters. They produce some 50,000 tons of salmon a year, most of it destined for the U.S. market. Young men work their way along the floating walkways around the 10,000-sq.-ft. pens, tossing brown food pellets that are met by a swirl of fish. In these 12 pens, there are about 1 million salmon, each a delicious, silver-sided beauty, and when harvested in 18 months, they will fetch more than $10 million in retail sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fish Farming: Fishy Business | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

...cleverly occupy, divide and utilize space rather than to represent the world. In a technique he called "Spatial Concept," Fontana blended small, round holes with a variety of substances and glued objects - including thick paint, glitter, colored stones and sand - to draw the viewer's eyes in a controlled swirl of fanciful symmetry while almost surreptitiously adding third and fourth dimensions. His large, egg-shaped works from the La Fine di Dio (The End of God) series of 1963-64, where a uniform surface is entirely pocked with deep gashes, could just as well be considered sculpture as painting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Slash of Genius | 11/24/2002 | See Source »

Lost in the swirl of the ubiquitous DHAs of varsity and junior varsity athletes are the accomplishments of one of the nation’s finest rugby teams...

Author: By Rob Cacace, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Singing The Praises of Unsung Athletes | 11/13/2002 | See Source »

...hand, whispering a name to be remembered in his prayers. And always there are scores of squealing teenage girls hovering on the sidelines, a few of the braver ones occasionally darting forward to get the great man's autograph, then retreating in a flurry of giggles and a swirl of head scarves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holy Man | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

Tomorrow night, Harvard bodies will twist, swirl and contort to the incendiary notes of techno beats and the virtuoso stylings of a solo bassist. And people will pack the Loeb-Ex Theater to see them. The 700 free tickets to the dance show Ex-rated were given out in days, and the wildly successful production showcases Harvard’s outstanding dance community. Harvard has an astounding 18 different student dance groups. Six hundred people each semester dance in the Office for the Arts (OFA) Dance Program. Harvard choreographers have competed masterfully in national competitions, and the dance programs rival...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: To the Beat of the Same Drum | 10/23/2002 | See Source »

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