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...second highest household income, and the fastest rising property values-and that economic muscle is pumping a boom in construction, retailing, fashion and plain old civic pride. "In many ways, this is one of the city's finest eras," says Masahiko Mori, president of Mori Seiki, a machine-tool company that has just relocated its headquarters from a neighboring prefecture to downtown Nagoya...
Although ultrasound is an indispensable diagnostic tool, doctors worry about excessive exposure. "You walk a tight line about how much you want to scare people," says Dr. Laura Riley, director of labor and delivery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and head of ACOG's obstetric-practice committee. "To the best of our knowledge, ultrasound is safe. Ultrasound that's done in a mall, where they don't know what the settings are on, may not be as safe...
...think they provide a service to students and parents, assuming that they are intelligent enough to digest the data and accept it for what it is,” Morse said. “This is one tool in the admissions process...
...late, hidden cameras have become quite the thing in Indian journalism. Tehelka, an Internet news site that later became a newspaper, pioneered subterfuge when it launched in May 2000, using secret cameras to expose corruption in cricket and the armed forces. Since then, grainy videos have become a staple tool of Indian investigative reporting. But until recently, editors have been careful to back the use of electronic trickery with a claim to be acting in the public interest. Founded 10 months ago, India TV dispensed with such piety, filming politicians, holy men and now celebrities in the bedroom. Chairman Rajat...
Ideally, defamiliarization can be an act of transcendence, making commonplace human rituals nearly sublime by elevating them to the realm of art. However, defamiliarization worked both ways, Boym argued. As a tool of Stalinist propaganda, art could lend a sense of wonder and exaltation, as in the harvest painting that declared the Stalinist slogan, “Life has become better. Life has become merrier.” The actual subject of the painting, a communal dinner in rural Russia, would itself have been unremarkable. But when metamorphosed into a massive genre painting as a monument to Stalinist benevolence, such...