By KENNETH CHANG
What did the baby sand dollar say to itself when it smelled a fish that would like to eat it?
“Let’s split!”
Grown-up sand dollars are shelled marine creatures roughly the size and shape of a dollar coin, but in their young larval days, they are squishy morsels floating in the water.
So their defense mechanism […]
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By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY : BORMIO, Italy — There were bear hugs, superlatives and inexpertly sprayed sparkling wine at the finish line Friday when Lindsey Vonn struggled to get the cork out of a bottle of Italian bubbly on the awards stand before gleefully dousing her teammate Ted Ligety.
“I know, it was slow coming off; I […]
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Art Review : By ROBERTA SMITH
It is hard to know if the once-distinguished International Asian Art Fair has been dealt a fatal blow or just knocked backward into starter mode, a phase it had previously managed to skip. The fair was born grand 12 years ago, and for a while grew only grander, sailing along […]
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Exhibition Review : By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
At the climax of Milton’s epic “Paradise Lost,” Satan is ecstatic in triumph. He has not only freed himself from the bonds tying him to hell, he has also disrupted heaven’s great human experiment, lured Eve into tasting the forbidden fruit, sabotaged any hope for Adam’s untainted virtue and mapped […]
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What’s Online : By DAN MITCHELL
LIKE most purveyors of media, music labels are flailing about for a new business model even as their old one is quickly becoming outmoded.
One proposed solution — giving music away online, supported by advertising — was the subject of a panel discussion this week at the South by Southwest music […]
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By JIM YARDLEY : BEIJING — Violence erupted Friday morning in a busy market area of the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, as Buddhist monks and other ethnic Tibetans brawled with Chinese security forces in clashes that brought an official report of 10 deaths. Witnesses say angry Tibetan crowds burned shops, cars, military vehicles and at least […]
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