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From the spectacular mountain setting of McMurdo Station, Lemonick flew 800 miles to the South Pole, a featureless expanse of white that stretches to the horizon. "We arrived at 2 a.m. on a brilliantly sunny night," he recalls. "They were having a heat wave -- ten below zero, the record high...
Technology has made possible these multiple roles, vastly expanding what libraries can offer and eliminating many economic disparities. Through the magic of computers, a branch located in the poorest section of town can provide the same information available in branches in affluent neighborhoods. A library in Philadelphia can retrieve data...
Matthew's belated disclosure was prompted, said his lawyer, by his concern that an innocent man not be prosecuted. That was scant consolation to Boston's black community, which had felt persecuted for more than two months as the result of a lie. Boston N.A.A.C.P. president Louis Elisa decried "the...
But not Scott Strasser. At 35, Strasser is a thoroughgoing anomaly. His $ spiky hair and Tokyo-hipster clothing might be unremarkable in Los Angeles or New York City, but he was raised and still lives in conservative Texas. There he is director of interior architecture of the big, conventional, Houston...
What makes Strasser's work refreshing is its liberation from slick superficial image making of either the "traditional" or the trendy variety -- no capriciously transplanted Corinthian columns, no aren't-we-important mahogany wainscoting. "The problem with most interior designers," he says, "is that they just decorate. I try to...