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...Boston show is full of groupings that allow you to compare how all three artists handled similar subjects. At various times, each of them produced a rendition of the Supper at Emmaus, the story from the New Testament in which the risen Christ reveals himself to a pair of astonished disciples. Titian's came first, in 1533-34, a picture of masterly calm and balance that borrows the stabilizing horizontal format of Leonardo's Last Supper. In 1542 the young Tintoretto took on the same subject and made it a scrum, full of lunging bodies and energies exploding outward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Renaissance Venice's Big Men on Canvas | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...reason we started this study was that we received concerns from clinicians, housekeeping staff, and nurses about various cleaning agents,” said lead researcher Anila Bello, a research fellow in exposure and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. Some hospital workers had said that they had experienced exacerbated asthma symptoms, while others complained of skin irritation...

Author: By Emma M. Benintende, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cleaning Supplies May Harm Health | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...about Heidegger’s abandonment of what he believed to be institutionalized philosophy in favor of simply thinking. Indeed, Taylor’s film presents nothing like a close reading of “Being and Time,” but it does rouse its viewers to consider various takes on what it might mean to be alive today.Walking down 5th Avenue in New York City, Princeton’s Peter Singer asks, “Can we make our academic studies more relevant to our questions today?” as he applies ethical theory to the affluence...

Author: By Susie Y. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Examined Life | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

Between 1997 and 2004, Berlin's public transportation company entered into 22 such lease and lease-back deals, covering a total of 511 tram cars and 647 subway cars, with various American investors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: German Cities Suffer in the U.S. Financial Crisis | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...little ridiculous to you, you’re not the only one. FlyBy has it from one IOP organizer that for her event earlier this semester, she was forced to run from the IOP to the Women’s Center and back to the IOP, scrambling betwixt various committees, to secure some scrappy slices...

Author: By Edward-michael Dussom | Title: Popcorn and Politics < Pizza and Politics | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

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