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...population was reaping and sowing, herding and mowing its way through life on preindustrial farms. In coastal cities, strong-shouldered stevedores were loading and unloading ships dawn to dusk without a container or stacking crane in sight. Builders, lumberjacks and railroad men drove nails or sawed wood with their muscles, not power tools. And for those doing the washing, cooking and scrubbing at home, life wasn't so dainty either. (Ever pick up one of those 8-lb. solid-metal weights that gave ironing its name?) In that bygone, sweat-drenched era, staying in shape just wasn't an issue...
Fitness experts increasingly believe that the solution lies in finding new ways to make physical movement an unavoidable part of everyday life. Some of the best thinking along those lines has come from a new alliance of public-health experts, urban planners and architects nurtured by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. That collaboration helped promote New Urbanism, a movement to build "walkable," mixed-use communities in which residences are a short distance from commercial centers. It also spurred efforts to retrofit cities and towns with what some call "complete streets"--thoroughfares that include sidewalks, bike paths and a protective strip...
...With an exhibition budget of $A1.4 million, triple that of New Zealand, Australia can afford to be more relaxed. Which suits the artist. While et al.'s installations often feature cyclone fencing and cacophonous sound loops, Swallow's pale wood carvings of skulls and suburban beanbags speak more softly. "The Biennale is about this explosion of shows, and you've got such little time to look at everything," Swallow says. "So the idea I want is almost like a cool room away from that experience." Not that Australia is resting on its laurels. As well as the usual bags...
...sainthood. Or at least the Dean’s List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote; don’t just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of “contemporary decadence,” like Natalie Wood. If you can’t come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of pseudo-facts...
Given the somewhat inexplicable popularity of Lamont’s concentration-killing reading rooms among undergraduates, I fear that the College is going to call in the same crew to cover Hilles with bicolored wood-paneling, floor lamps, and giant, plush chairs, clear out all the books and create a new “reading” room in the Quad Library. Not only would this be inefficient in terms of space (where the library is eliminating essentially all of its holdings and consolidating to a single floor) but would be practically sacrilege to Hilles’ amazing architectural pedigree...