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...Academy. That fall, at the age of 27, without having sat a qualifying exam, he became a member of the academy's first post-Cultural Revolution class of photography students. "I thought maybe if I could get good enough at photography, my factory would transfer me to its propaganda unit," he says, "and I'd get off that night shift. That's all I cared about...
Subrahmanian also finds time to work on his unconventional social studies thesis about clowns in the hospital. He observes the Clown Care Unit at the Boston Children’s Hospital a few days each week, studying the interactions between clown and patient to determine how medicine can be made more personable. Of course it’s not all fun and games, as he must throw in the philosophical theories of Max Weber, thereby “corrupting a fun topic in only the way social studies...
...FURNITURE Under a partnership with Bernhardt, her 200-unit collection hits stores in April. About 400 retailers have committed, and reviewers have dubbed it a "clear winner." Could be a good thing
...pines, palms and cacti; fake chimneys and air-conditioning huts; ersatz silos and water towers home to no liquid or grain. One company raised the roof of a McDonald's to conceal some antennas. Another stashed wireless gear inside signs for BP stations and Red Roof Inns. The camouflage unit of Valmont Industries, based in Omaha, Neb., received a request for a 115-ft. saguaro cactus, which would have been triple the plant's natural height. "You'd turn around and run if you saw something like that," says the company's tree specialist, Jim Casqueiro. The solution: split...
...said that while the family unit was at the center of people’s lives 100 years ago—people grew their own food and were schooled at home, for instance—that’s no longer the case...