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...daughters' infancy--the nights of light sleep, alert to every stirring--when I began plugging my gizmo into the outlet next to the bed, so it could rest beside me, generally peaceful but pinging quietly every so often when an e-mail came in. And if I was between REM cycles and heard it, I had the choice: Do I ignore it, make it sleep through the night? Or do I find out what it's trying to tell me? When my husband and I spent a weekend away, unplugged, unpinged, it felt a little like that first time...
...cachet that contemporary art can bestow on fashion was one of the big creative and commercial themes at the recent runway shows in Paris and Milan. Miuccia Prada collaborated with architect Rem Koolhaas and graphic-design company 2x4 to create dizzying backdrops for her Art Nouveau-inspired prints. Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana opened their show with a video of an artist painting a canvas with flowers. The models appeared in dresses of hand-painted organza. Although there was no direct collaboration, the brilliant layers of opaque color that Raf Simons created for the Jil Sander show looked like...
...public life. Harvard’s inductees included Associate Dean of Harvard Medical School (HMS) Nancy C. Andrews, Professor of History David G. Blackbourn, Social Sciences Dean David M. Cutler ’87, Bernbaum Professor of English Literature Leo Damrosch, Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design Rem Koolhaas, Cabot Director of the University Art Museums Thomas W. Lentz, Beren Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw, Professor of Geophysics J. O’Connell, Professor of Psychology James H. Sidanius, and HMS Professor of Cell Biology Junying Yuan. The academy also honored 24 foreign citizens as honorary members...
...three months, and when I came back, I couldn't even recognize a neighborhood near my home. I hardly knew it was my city," says film director Xu Jinglei, 33, born and bred in Beijing. Astonishing buildings are starting to appear: the iconic Bird's Nest Olympic stadium; Rem Koolhaas' cantilevered towers for broadcaster CCTV; the National Theater, a doorless silver dome perched on the corner of Tiananmen Square like a newly landed UFO. Numberless dilapidated eyesores thrown up by central planners in the 1950s and '60s have been swept away...
...Happy to concede that "the brain deals with crisis in ways we don't fully understand," Nelson is keen to test his theory some more. He won't go into details, but it's believed he wants to monitor REM activity in subjects he would expect to have NDE-like symptoms in certain conditions...