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...musicians, providing house space for Art Nouveau painter Mikhail Vrubel, Realist Ilya Repin, Impressionist Valentin Serov and landscape painter Vasili Polenov, among others. Both of Abramtsevo's historical periods are preserved?half of the manor house was kept in the Empire style of Aksakov's time, while the Mamontov section features fireplaces with colorful Art Nouveau tiles that Vrubel crafted in his on-site ceramics workshop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Wing, East Wing | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...rock. By keeping tabs on the position of key landmarks on either side of the fault, scientists can measure the speed at which the plates are traveling, in this case about 2 in. a year. The problem for the Bay Area boils down to this: except for one short section, the plates on either side of the San Andreas are tightly locked together. It's only when the stress becomes overwhelming that the San Andreas breaks apart, allowing the plates to lurch forward, 10 ft. to 20 ft. at a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lessons from the San Francisco Earthquake | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

...musicians, providing house space for Art Nouveau painter Mikhail Vrubel, Realist Ilya Repin, Impressionist Valentin Serov and landscape painter Vasili Polenov, among others. Both of Abramtsevo's historical periods are preserved - half of the manor house was kept in the Empire style of Aksakov's time, while the Mamontov section features fireplaces with colorful Art Nouveau tiles that Vrubel crafted in his on-site ceramics workshop. Abramtsevo itself features in many of the paintings on display. Mamontov's family posed here for portraits by Repin and Vrubel. A copy of Serov's The Girl with Peaches (1887, now in Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Wing, East Wing | 3/28/2006 | See Source »

Look around section: approximately every fifth student has dealt with depression in the last year and at least one or two people in your section probably seriously considered attempting suicide. Don’t do a disservice to the Harvard community by suggesting depression is necessary for creativity—there is a difference between frustration over an exciting project and not being able to get out of bed in the morning because you feel worthless...

Author: By Judy Z. Herbstman | Title: Depression A Serious Health Concern, Not Boon to Creativity | 3/24/2006 | See Source »

...credibility to address the third issue has become deeply suspect. Abuses in Iraq are, as a top human rights UN official in the country recently argued, “certainly as bad” and extend “over a much wider section of the population than” under Saddam Hussein.Yet once again the halls of Washington ring with calls for “regime change,” this time in Iran. On March 7, Vice President Dick Cheney threatened ominously that “all options [are] on the table.” The hawkish...

Author: By Alireza Doostdar and Maryam M. Gharavi, S | Title: Giving ‘Freedom’ a Bad Name | 3/22/2006 | See Source »

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