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An event known as "The World's Greatest Hobby on Tour" is underway at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. It is model railroading and it features a train ride for kids, model trains, seminars and... Read more at www.WISHTV.com
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Model Railroading at fairgrounds
As the world hurtles toward 2 billion cars, an increasingly important issue for the climate will be this: How will China's citizens get to work? With their rising incomes and access to freshly paved roads, many will be tempted to emulate Americans and buy cars . Some will ride the gleaming rail networks funded by Beijing. But in the past two years, China has also become the world's fastest ...
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Can Buses Keep Cars Off the Road in China?
Herman Helle A scene from Kamp Recreatingif that is the right wordthe daily routine of mass murder at Auschwitz with miniature puppets made of plasticine may not seem a promising enterprise. However artfully done, it could make what actually happened look trivial, like a kind of game. And yet Kamp , staged at St. Anns Warehouse in Brooklyn in the first week of June, by a Dutch group called ...
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Holocaust on Stage
By Nicole Sperling Director Harald Zwart took a big step for his pitch -- see mini-model of Mr. Han's courtyard he and his wife built
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Naked, without its logo 1. "Daddy, what's a brand?" Chiquita, Victoria's Secret, The GOP, Amnesty International. They all use marketing and invite trust in a distinct belief system. They're all, to one degree or another, brands. For a brand, nirvana is when your good name is so widely endorsed that it enters the language. "Pass the Kleenex." "Google it." But that's the top of a long and slippery ...
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Daddy, Whats a Brand? and 9 More Awkward Questions for Uncertain Times
Coherent Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) has added a new model to their popular IndyStar family of compact excimer lasers that offers higher repetition rate (2 kHz) for increased throughput.
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Coherent Introduces 2 kHz IndyStar Excimer Laser
Richard Dorment With the opening of an exhibition of nine important old master paintings from Dulwich Picture Gallery at the Frick Gallery this month, New Yorkers are at most a mere cab ride away from seeing major yet relatively little-known paintings by van Dyck and Poussin, Rembrandt, Murillo, Watteau, and Gainsborough. Even if you think you know these artists well, go anyway: these pictures ...
Continue here: Art and Traffic (New York Review of Books)
Portland, Oregon, is consistently ranked as one of the country's most livable cities (and it was a Fast City in 2007 ). And it continues to show solid growth despite having the second lowest per capita transit spending of the 28 largest U.S. metropolitan areas. A system of trains, streetcars, buses, and aerial trams give the city one of the most diverse transportation portfolios in the world. In ...
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Inspired Ethonomics: Portland, a Global Model of Transit-Oriented Development (Fast Company Magazine)
Louisiana may score low in many national education rankings, but the rest of the country is paying more attention to the way the state trains its teachers.
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Is there not more to life than giant TV screens, tiny lo-fi media players, and incessant yakking and texting on mobile phones every dratted where? As a matter of fact, yes there is!
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Editor's Note: Fun Brain Games and Geek Toys (Linux Today)