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WHY DO MOST DINNER FORKS HAVE FOUR tines? How did the zipper come about? Henry Petroski, the inquisitive engineering professor from Duke who gave us a history of The Pencil (it's more interesting than you would imagine), provides the answers in a lively new treatise on design called THE...
by Don Lynch (Hyperion; $60). When the "unsinkable" ocean liner went down on its maiden voyage in 1912, its story had scarcely begun. The entire epic is here, from the fatal encounter with an iceberg to the discovery of the sunken wreck in 1989. Ken Marschall's paintings imagine the...
YEVGENI SLAVUTIN Director "The whole world is about to perish, and you sound like you want to drink tea!" shouts director Yevgeni Slavutin, 44. He is taking two actresses through the crucial scene in an existentialist drama, where a chance encounter between a city woman and a peasant turns into...
In addition, Asian-American students say theyoften encounter the "pre-med, scienceconcentrator" stereotype.
But sometime in the past 12 months, a generation of women woke up to the possibility that what they had taken for granted could also be taken away. As the Supreme Court began to nibble at Roe v. Wade, "choice" took on the moral urgency that in another generation had...