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...million. In August 1996, according to CNN, kidnappers in Tijuana, Mexico, released Mamoru Konno after his company paid the $2 million ransom they were demanding. In other words, his life is worth as much money as 10,000 African lives. When lives are put in stark terms of cash value??one life the victim of extortionists and the other the victim of cruel circumstance—the disparity in “value?? is shockingly vast. How can one justify saving one life when one could save...
...Streets is not after shock value??his focus is down-to-earth. “At street level” is an oft-repeated phrase on the album. Though he grazes the surface of preachiness a couple of times, he undermines himself far too much to be taken too seriously...
...News “Best Value?? ranking, Harvard placed behind the California Institute of Technology and Princeton, respectively...
...idea that the city should take the property by eminent domain— which allows the city to take a property from a private owner, while requiring the city to pay “market value??—several councillors were skeptical last night...
...from the portfolio Artist Mail, 1969, he fills a plastic envelope with margarine, chocolate and brown paint. In “Capri Battery, 1985,” Beuys attaches a lemon to a light bulb to demonstrate the connection between food and energy. In his “Economic Value?? various food products ranging from Swiss throat lozenges to whole grain crackers demonstrate Beuy’s social theory that the beneficial nature of food has been tainted by its role as an economic commodity. Beuys uses food in art to propagate his personal beliefs and to promote...