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...conversations that began five years ago between the artist and Jock Reynolds, director of the Yale University Art Gallery. Thinking over ways to preserve LeWitt's work, Reynolds suggested a long-term installation of his wall drawings at Mass MoCA, which had opened in 1996 in a complex of almost two dozen derelict industrial buildings, most of them still unused by the museum. "I think Jock described me to Sol as a poor dirt farmer of a museum director," says mass moca director Joe Thompson. "Cash poor but rich in buildings and land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sol LeWitt's Dazzling Line Drawings | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

...planned closures of a truck and transmission plant. This downsizing is needed to cope with overcapacity, but it's fostering bad blood between the car maker and its union. "We felt betrayed," says Chris Buckley, president of Canadian Auto Workers local 222, whose membership at GM Canada's assembly complex on Lake Ontario includes workers from the surplus truck plant. "It's never been this bad. We're on the verge of closing our doors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada Faces Its Own Auto Industry Pains | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

...paid off in full every month, which would result in an aggregate default of less than $100 billion. That number doesn't come near the losses that have occurred in the $14 trillion U.S. mortgage market. Moreover, credit card asset-backed securities aren't as far-reaching or as complex as mortgage asset-backed securities, and they don't have large amounts of credit-default swaps piled on top of them like mortgages do. As a result, a total collapse of the credit-card industry wouldn't have the same far-reaching ramifications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: With Defaults Rising, Is a Credit-Card Crisis Looming? | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...schools' biggest grouse against rankings, such as the lists produced each spring by U.S. News & World Report, is that they take a complex institution and crunch it down into a single score. Critics castigate U.S. News not only for rewarding schools for such things as outspending their rivals, but also for basing a whopping 25% of a college's ranking solely on how its reputation is rated by administrators at rival institutions. (See pictures of the college dorm room's evolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Antidote to College Rankings? | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...clearer, better brew, periodically transfer the wort to a new container to remove the sediment. At this point, it’s also the time to “dry hop” it with fancier flavors like roasted coffee grounds or coriander to give the beer more complex flavors...

Author: By Rebecca A. Cooper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The New Spirit in Adams House | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

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