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...9/11 changed culture in 2002, it was to make it more of what it already was. Niche culture continued to erode mainstream culture. Except for a few uniting events--the 9/11 anniversary, the opening weekend of Attack of the Clones--the mass market continued to fragment, with a digital cable channel and a bootleg Internet remix for every consumer, while the online version of real-life-simulation game The Sims promised players a chance to be virtually together, alone. The mainstream became more mainstream (that is, more reverent and safe); the niches got nichier (more outre and provocative). E pluribus...
...game with dead bodies. Last week, a Japanese fact-finding team discovered that the ostensible remains of abductee Kaoru Matsuki, who supposedly died in North Korea at age 42, appear to actually be those of a 60-year-old woman, according to a dental expert who examined a jaw fragment. Meanwhile, a group of abductees' families is raising questions about the authenticity of the documentation that is supposed to back North Korea's accounts of what happened to victims. For example, most death certificates presented by Pyongyang were printed on identical forms issued by a mysterious '695th hospital' while...
...untrained eye, the misshapen lump of lead looks utterly worthless. But to the examiners in the windowless lab of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in Rockville, Md., this is pure gold: a fragment of the slug that could link the latest victim of the sniper rampage to the ones who came before. Like the other bullets, this one is carefully carried into the lab and hand-delivered to Walter Dandridge, 50, the principal examiner in the case. Using a bit of sticky wax, he attaches the crumpled slug to a slender rod suspended under his Leica comparison microscope...
After the show, a brawny security guard on the red line was feeling chatty. We compared purloined paraphernalia: our set list, his fragment of Tucker’s security bracelet. Asked what he had thought of the show, the guard considered it for a moment. “Not bad,” he said. “For an all-girl band...
...more than 120 original prints and drawings, some of them - Cow, Shoes, Flowers, Red Lenin, Hammer and Sickle and Absolut Vodka - chosen to suit uncomplicated local tastes, Bycko says. There are also such Warhol personal effects as a snakeskin jacket, green-tinted sunglasses, a scrap of paper titled "Calligraphy Fragment Found in Pocket of Andy's Leather Jacket" and historical records mentioning Warhol's parents, both ethnic Ruthenians...