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...unrelated psychological experiment, and many were thinking of going home (or to the pub). They were asked, instead, whether they wouldn't mind spending an additional five minutes helping with research. The participants were led into a quiet room and asked to listen to a 2½-min. tape that they were told would be "rather dull...
That's a shocking bit of understatement. The tape - which Guantánamo officials should consider as a method of nonlethal torture - was a rambling (and fake) voice-mail message that purported to invite the listener to a 21st-birthday party. In it, the party's host talks about someone's sick cat; she mentions her redecorated kitchen, the weather, someone's new house in Colchester and a vacation in Edinburgh that involved museums and rain. In all, she mentions eight place names and eight people who are definitely coming to the party. (See pictures of office cubicles around...
...Hall.” Indeed, each artist employed a unique approach to attracting and holding attention: one student accented a predominantly grayscale portrait with bold green and orange brushstrokes, while another’s imaginative use of materials one might find in a neglected dormitory corner—masking tape, paper towels, red thread, and even human hair—created a hypnotizing, organic mixed media image. The inspiration for the students’ work was often rooted in their everyday experiences as residents of the Cambridge and Boston areas. Emily C. Milam...
...track is really old fashioned. Why don't you use digital? For my sketches it's always 4-track and when I take the songs into the big studio it's always analog, which is one or two-inch tape. I feel like digital recording is a little bit too cold for me. Plus I spend a lot of my time listeing to older records that are recorded on older tape. That's the bar I've set for myself, to sound like that...
...some of California's poorest districts are running out of cash for subsidized meal programs. The Hayward district is planning layoffs that would increase class size in primary grades from 20 students to 32. In Lake Elsinore, schools have turned off the lights in many rooms - and placed duct tape over the switches - to save money on electricity bills...