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...InOut lamp by Ramon Ubeda and Otto Canalda for Metalarte The more than 2-m-tall Big&Big looms like a giant glowing toadstool. Despite this fairy-tale appearance, it's robustly functional. Its Barcelona designers say the rotation-molded polyethylene shell gives it the toughness of a garbage can. Fortunately, that's where the resemblance ends. www.metalarte.com...
...There was no mummy--and no Mummy--inside. Still, that doesn't put KV63 in the same category as Al Capone's infamously empty vault. The coffin was filled with ancient embalming materials, strips of linen and funerary garlands and collars made of dried flowers. That, says lead excavator Otto Schaden of the University of Memphis, means KV63 may have been a storage cache, as another tomb proved to be. That's important for history--but it would have been a lot more fun to find a queen...
...entire history of the planet is one of climate change. Glaciers receding? My house is built where a glacier once was. The same is true for much older structures. Trying to stop Earth's climate from changing is as realistic as trying to stop Earth from spinning. Gordon Otto Calgary, Canada Iran and the Bomb In his essay "Today tehran, tomorrow the world" [April 3], Charles Krauthammer stereotyped Iranians as followers of an "extreme and fanatical ideology" who would wield nuclear power recklessly. He argues that while good sense has kept other rogue nations from using the atom bomb, Iran...
...entire history of the planet is a history of climate change. Glaciers receding? My house is built where a glacier once was. The same is true for much older structures. Trying to stop Earth's climate from changing is as realistic as trying to stop Earth from spinning. Gordon Otto Calgary, Canada...
...allowance, unusual for a Bush Administration member, that the U.S. may have made mistakes in the course of pursuing its war on terror. But the reports are putting pressure on some erstwhile allies. Germany's new foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and its former Interior Minister, Otto Schily, could face parliamentary investigations for failing to reveal that they knew about a German national, Khaled el-Masri, who German prosecutors say was abducted allegedly by the CIA in a case of mistaken identity and flown to Afghanistan where he was imprisoned and interrogated for five months. El Masri said...