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The World and I back issues
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Shopping for crafts in Michoacan.(LIFE)
April 1, 2009... Some would say my hairdresser, Elizabeth Galloway, is a brave woman. Every year she travels in the highlands of Mexico to the State of Michoacan, searching out artistic treasures to bring back to the U.S. to share with friends and family.
Despite recent news about violence in the Mexican...
Ralph Waldo Emerson and American identity.(BOOK WORLD)
December 1, 2008... A recent essay identifies Ralph Waldo Emerson as the "architect of American intellectual culture" and goes on to cite some of his aphorisms, the best known, perhaps, being "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Many of his essays and poetry are still found in anthologies of...
New galactic watering holes.(NATURAL SCIENCE)
December 1, 2008... Let's face a harsh and brutal truth about the radio frequency of 1420MHz.
When the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligences [SETI] began in earnest in the 1960s, astronomers thought that the frequency of a fundamental transition of hydrogen, 1420MHz, would be the most ideal radio...
Sibling rivalry: the Scottish and the English.(CULTURE)
December 1, 2008... Most Americans are shocked to learn that the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP), pledged to leave the United Kingdom attracted more than one-third of the electorate in the last Parliamentary elections in Scotland. This would be the equivalent of a regional party in the American South today that...
A short history of collage.(THE ARTS)
December 1, 2008... Collage is a technique of pasting materials such as newspaper clippings, fur, wall paper, package labels, or dozens of other possible materials onto paintings, drawings, prints, even sculpture.
By adding a "collage" an artist can change the nature of what he or she is creating, providing...