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...first it appeared to be wayward scraps of paper lying on the dock, but as the Coast Guard cutter Conifer left its moorings last week with the squirming body of a 31-ft., 19,200-lb. gray whale stretched across the width of the deck, a glint of light disclosed the discarded object's true identity: a paperback copy of Herman Melville's Moby Dick...
...what point does an array of colored squares in a regular grid begin to turn into a recognizable image? The question touches on the mystery of Realist painting--how it is, for instance, that when looking close up at a Velasquez you see a flurry of gray-and-pink spots and streaks, and when you move back a couple of feet, that same patch has become a glistening silver embroidery on rose velvet. All of Close's art recalls his fixation on this effect, the brain seeking illusion in pattern, questing for clues: Close will break a face down into...
...black gentleman in neat gray slacks and a white work shirt sits down on the other side of the man in the striped shirt. Meanwhile, the first man introduces himself as David...
Yahoo!, the éminence grise of search engines, may be grise no longer: It's heading into the shop for a redesign, and its signature default gray background is on the chopping block. "It's actually still on the table," says Tim Brady, VP in charge of production at Yahoo!, adding that "All the new browsers are defaulted to white anyway." This is Yahoo!'s first face-lift in over a year. Why? The new face of Yahoo! makes more of the site's content accessible from the front page, including news feeds and a link to its gaming site...
...couple was fined $2,200 in 1996 after their son pleaded no contest to breaking and entering a church and drug-related charges. Their convictions were later overturned. Says Barry Krisberg, president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency in San Francisco: "Parental-responsibility law is a gray area. It's a toothless tiger. We have no research on the laws' effectiveness...