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...rapidly as China is, people often take comfort from things that remain the same. That may explain the alarm felt by residents of the western city of Lanzhou on Sunday afternoon, when they noticed that a stretch of the 3,400-mile Yellow River was not yellow - not even tan - but a color closer to magenta. By the next day China's official news agency, Xinhua, had published photographs of the Biblically hued slick and reported that an unknown substance spilling out of a local sewer had caused the river to "turn red and smelly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Yellow River Runs Red | 10/24/2006 | See Source »

...transported into a futuristic world. French artist Matthieu Briand’s “UBIQ, a Mental Odyssey” transforms the gallery entrance into a spaceship based on the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Visitors are then asked to wear a tan wireless viewing device that changes the view to what one of the three other participants is looking at, making the perception of the exhibition gallery into a shared reality. Moving along, the gallery walls are painted a dull shade of white, bare except for the numbers one-to-13 differentiating...

Author: By Kimberly E. Gittleson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Please Stop to Smell the Art | 10/19/2006 | See Source »

...realize an hour later that he has made a terrible mistake. He comes back, of course, drawn by his guilt over a friend?s murder and eventually finds himself on the money trail of a smiling man whom Mankell sees as the picture of contemporary Swedish capitalism: perfect tan, private helicopters and a pair of homicidal mercenaries hovering in the background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Novel Mysteries From Old Masters | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

Your friend, author Amy Tan, once said that you're "the rabbi of everybody." Do you feel comfortable in that spiritual adviser's role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life and Death | 9/24/2006 | See Source »

...coming of winter doesn’t mean the end of tanning season—at least, not if you’re a mouse. The Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has provided red-haired rodents with a way to brown. And the discovery could have major implications for the prevention of melanoma—a disease that is estimated to strike one in 75 Americans at some point in their lifetime. In a study published yesterday by the journal Nature, David E. Fisher, director of the Melanoma Program at Dana-Farber and a professor in pediatrics at Children?...

Author: By Christina G. Vangelakos, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Study: Fake Tans May Block Cancer | 9/22/2006 | See Source »

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