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ODORS Nearing the target, the bugs are able to detect lactic acid secreted by the skin, proof that they're still on course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bzzzz...Slap! | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

...SKIN IS PIERCED A shroud called a labium opens as the hungry mosquito readies herself to bite, revealing fine cutting instruments called stylets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bzzzz...Slap! | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

...real goal is: the creation of a multiethnic elite. I think young minorities can help form that elite. But I want to join that elite and be expected to deliver the "unique experience" of my whole life rather than an assumed experience based solely on the color of my skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Much Diversity Do You Want from Me? | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

...dominant medium here. Among other endless loops, visitors can watch Zhang Peili's triptych featuring tight close-ups of a man cutting food on a plate and audibly chewing it. In Cui Xiuwen's three-hour Metro No. 2, a woman on a Beijing subway peels bits of skin off her lips as other passengers come and go. For more excitement, there's Yang Zhenzhong's 922 Grains of Rice, in which a rooster and a hen peck away at 922 grains of rice while male and female voices tally his and her scores. Best of the lot is Yang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chinoiserie Gone Mad | 6/29/2003 | See Source »

...Harvard students trek to the Potter movies and read the books? Now that dreary sourcebooks are temporarily put away for the summer, what does 870 pages of escapist literature offer us? For one, the long-noted parallels between Harvard and Hogwarts are no longer just skin deep in Order of the Phoenix. Sure, Annenberg still bears a striking resemblance to the Hogwarts of the two Potter movies. Hogwarts still has residential Houses, though its sorting system (the cunning kids go to Slytherin, the smart ones to Ravenclaw, the brave to Gryffindor and everyone else to Hufflepuff) is the kind...

Author: By Elisabeth S. Theodore, | Title: Harvard and Hogwarts | 6/27/2003 | See Source »

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