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Most of all, the members of the Badr Brigade -- they have kept their unit's name -- are eager to project a new image of Palestinians. Not hijackers. Not dust-caked guerrillas staging night raids across the Israeli border. Just ordinary cops with polished boots and well-pressed uniforms, assisting in the splendidly routine business of maintaining law and order among their own people...
...some time scientists have been moving toward the view that the extinction of the dinosaurs occurred after a giant comet or meteor struck the earth, filling the air with dust that shut out the sunlight for months. Now the theory is looking even better: a crater off the coast of Yucatan, known to be the right age (65 million years old) but thought to be too small to have been made by such a cosmic collision, has been discovered to be 185 miles across, not 110 as previously believed. The heavenly object that carved it out was plenty big enough...
...Michael Crichton '64, the noted technothriller author of "Jurassic Park" and "Congo," among others, wrote a preview of the women's soccer team, the dust jacket might read like this...
...photographs reflect a work site under construction. The photographs do not show environmental danger of any kind, nor the potential for any unusual health-related concerns, other than those connected with the normal debris and dust associated with construction and remodeling...
Some of Horn's films, and videos of her performances, can be watched at the Guggenheim, but the main body of the show is sculpture: mechanized objects that pump liquids around, or reduce lumps of carbon to black dust with tiny pecking hammers, or swivel suspended binoculars in an anxious parody of disembodied inspection, or flap small wings. Some devices, slender granddaughters of Jean Tinguely's painting machines of the '50s, splatter paint around on the walls or (with more fetishistic suggestion) on women's shoes. No doubt to spare the clothes of the museum audience, these stay switched...