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...shawls and silvers and paintings from the area to show people what is lost and what’s to gain by helping this rich culture grow back,” Tanguturi said. Photographs by Mustafa Hadi and Ann McGhee’s painting “Old Cherry Tree by the Charles”—the most expensive piece in the auction at $1,700—highlighted the event’s collection. The images of the photographs revealed the reality of life in South Asia while the expensive paintings aided in the fund-raising. Procuring...
...annual roundup of the best new products and technological innovations prompted readers to share their excitement about the cool things that await them in the future--maybe even under the Christmas tree. Some were troubled by the ethical implications of the cloned dog Snuppy...
...1980s. Some years later she moved into territory even more shadowy than the boundary between childhood and adulthood: the Southern landscape. Through darkroom accidents and her use of 19th century glass-plate developing techniques, these pictures come to us fogged, scratched and indistinct, like her portrait of a wounded tree, above. Her mesmerizing book is not so much a portrait of the South as it is a dream about it, with a residue of wonder and longing on every page...
...although they see virtues in each other, can't quite become friends because each fails to understand why the other does things in such an odd way. The duck likes to glide back and forth in the water; the owl prefers sitting high up in a birch tree. The duck eats weeds from the bottom of the pond; the owl hunts small animals in the woods. The duck sleeps at night, the owl during the day. Eventually both realize, as the owl puts it, "I don't do things the wrong way, I do them a different...
Playwright, singer, songwriter, cartoonist, Shel Silverstein was a jack-of-all-trades and the master of one--and the one was writing children's books. His freewheeling, provocative stories (The Giving Tree) and books of poetry (Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic), illustrated with his quirky line drawings, have sold more than 25 million copies. Thus a new Silverstein title is a signal event, especially if it comes six years after his death...