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...massive recall of baby slings announced March 24 made me glad I could never figure out how to use...
Wing, who also currently serves as a Carpenter Center Fellow, conceived Bizarre Animals as an opportunity for artists to use the Museum itself as inspiration for projects. She invited several friends—including many fellow Harvard alumni—and gave them the freedom to propose projects based on whatever interested them about the Museum...
...Every type of pot comes from a certain tradition. Using certain materials and symbols, you can instantly conjure up a particular culture. There’s turquoise for the Middle East, blue and white for Delft [from the Netherlands], the bottle green ware of France, the ironware of Japan and Korea. If you use those techniques they immediately evoke a culture, and if you mix them you create hybrids. You hope that people can pick up on it—that’s where an increase in visual literacy comes into play...
...debate. Passage appeared to be assured only after Michigan Congressman Bart Stupak announced in the late afternoon that he and a group of antiabortion Democrats, who had pushed for more restrictive language in the original House bill, had been satisfied that the Senate version would not allow the use of federal funds to pay for the procedure. That only came after President Obama promised to sign an executive order reaffirming that the bill would maintain a "consistency with longstanding restrictions on the use of federal funds for abortion." In reality, that executive order was more a symbolic move than...
Once they're given away, some pens wind up in museums; others are displayed proudly in recipients' offices or homes. But they sometimes pop up again, like in the 2008 presidential campaign, when John McCain vowed to use the same pen given to him by President Reagan to cut pork from the federal budget...