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...Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks, an Emmy Award-nominated cartoon serial on America's PBS network. While Garud handles Ferny's lip-synching, a colleague is in charge of the movements of other taurine body parts; another is making one of Ferny's friends, a sheep named Wiley, come to life. The work might be time consuming and repetitive, but Garud insists that it has its little pleasures. "It's a lot of fun getting Ferny to sing," he says...
...Wiley, Loeb professor of biochemistry and biophysics, is declared missing after police find his abandoned rental car on an Interstate 40 bridge over the Mississippi River near Memphis. Wiley was last seen on Nov. 15 at a dinner at the Peabody Hotel, where he was attending the annual meeting of the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientific advisory board...
...commodities selling themselves as art. Paradoxically, they’re not inert; far from it—dancefloor music is alive, forces you to listen with more than your ears. What corner you inhabit depends on how you feel. Why else would U.K. grime artists like Dizzee Rascal and Wiley Kat have come up with the inhuman beats they rhyme over? They grew up listening to breakbeat hardcore and jungle, whose twisted beats became their “rhythmic code” (to borrow from Simon Reynolds...
...want to cut to the chase, a straightforward guide is the way to go. But which one? Some, like Online Dating for Dummies by Judith Silverstein and Michael Lasky (Wiley; 288 pages) are too dumb for their own good. Dummies has the occasional good tip, like avoiding negativity in your profile, but it's packed with no-brainers like "If you don't have e-mail now, you're gonna have to get it" and "Some people, men and women, do seek purely sexual liaisons on the Internet...
Sources: National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution; National Park Service; NASA; How We Invented the Airplane, by Orville Wright, 1988 edition (Dover); First Flight, by T.A. Heppenheimer, 2003 (Wiley); On Great White Wings, by Fred E.C. Culick and Spencer Dunmore, 2001 (Hyperion...