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California has, as they say, some issues right now. Its budget deficit could reach $12 billion, its energy costs remain sky-high, and its politicians are still fighting over how to fix the failing public school system. But Governor Gray Davis devoted much of his State of the State address last week to more life-and-death matters. "All four hijacked planes were bound for California," said Davis, dressed in a blue shirt, a red tie and an American-flag lapel pin. "More than 100 fellow Californians paid the ultimate price for our freedom." In memory of those who died...
...surprise, the company's designers and engineers delivered the car in record time. A flood of sketches and round-the-clock construction yielded the Pontiac Solstice, a two-door, gunmetal gray roadster with a supercharged engine and a Corvette transmission, which was to make its debut at the Detroit show on Sunday. The car is exactly what Lutz had in mind--simple, sultry, evocative--and although it is for now the only one of its kind, its off-the-shelf components suggest that if the critics like it, it could make it into production in a few years and sell...
...Dora lived surrounded, the Great Indoors, and the light that bathed them. Everything gets equal attention from this light, and the structure of shadows and highlights Koch could raise from it can be extraordinarily dramatic and resolved. Witness his Music, 1956-57, and what this lovely fugue of pewter-gray and dark would lose if the L-shaped opening in its lower cupboard door were closed. Has any American artist ever painted the sheen of polished mahogany better than Koch? Well, maybe one: John Singleton Copley, whose work, not coincidentally, Koch adored...
...Need a gray shoebox? Call Tim Shetler, marketing vice president of TimesTen, a software maker based in Mountain View, Calif. He has had stacks of them in his office ever since Sept. 11, when he decided that sending out surprise packages was no longer a great gimmick to advertise TimesTen's database software. He was right. Within weeks the anthrax letters made even plain white envelopes look sinister...
Ashraf said she hoped the Tranquility Room, with its bright walls, sky-blue ceiling and green plants, would be a peaceful refuge from the “sharp” feeling of Mather’s gray concrete...