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...ceramic pendants, and even a bridled horse sculpture, and come from areas of East Asia—China, Japan, and Korea. Particularly interesting is East Asian art’s predilection to focus on both real and imaginary creatures, the latter a departure from most Western artwork. The common thread between all these works is the subject matter. The Sackler carefully considered this theme. “Animal Motifs [shows a] selection of animals with importance in East Asian tradition,” according to Mowry.With over 200,000 pieces in the collections and storage of the Sackler, the works...
...common thread between the two campaigns is the loss of an Ivy Player of the Year, a playmaking guard who bore the brunt of the scoring load for the Quakers the year before. Michael Jordan led his 1999-00 Penn squad to a perfect 14-0 Ivy season, pouring in 16 points a game and dishing out five assists per contest. Tim Begley meant much the same to the 2004-05 Quakers team, contributing 14 points, five assists and five boards per game en route to a 13-1 league mark...
...this intellectual foundation—supplemented by texts and discussions—it is not surprising that the students’ work is highly conceptual.Hannah B. Merriman, a second year graduate student at the Harvard Divinity School, sits on the floor surrounded by a tangled heap of fabric and thread. She lifts an elaborate metal structure covered in a veil of canvas, and puts it on her head. Merriman is creating performance art—a multi-piece costume that she will wear while walking through a labyrinth spray-painted on the Divinity School parking lot. The complex design will...
Patchwork Inventor: Ellis Developments Ltd. Availability: Now, in England only To Learn More: ellisdev.co.uk It may look like a delicate doily, but the Bioimplantable Device is a rugged internal bandage that helps patients recover swiftly from shoulder-joint-replacement surgery. Made of standard polyester surgical thread, the device has an embroidered pattern that gives it strength and flexibility while imitating human tendons. Once implanted between muscles and bones, the device is never removed; it becomes part of the body as cells grow over it. This technology is also being used to replace slipped disks in the neck...
...crisis is compounded by the suspicion local tribes have traditionally shown outsiders. Scores of villagers were killed and injured by the quake. Dozens, if not hundreds, of people lay dying, and for many residents, the closest medical attention meant carrying the injured for nine hours along trails that thread down a rocky cliff face to the Indus, where they might hail a passing boat. The tribes also needed blankets and tents. With their plight desperate, tribal elders sent word that they badly needed help...