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| Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:00:00 EST The art of the heart |
| Alexander Tsiaras is quite literally a visionary. With the aid of the highest of medical high technology, he peers inside the body and sculpts the raw data that pour from scanning machines into 3-D images that are alive and dramatic, full of color and texture. For more than 20 years, Tsiaras's company, Anatomical Travelogue, has used an artist's eye to stir a mix of photography, medical scans, and computer software to create books such as From Conception to Birth and The Architecture and Design of Man and Woman. His latest is The Invision Guide to a Healthy Heart. At $20, it is more affordable than his previous books, and there's a reason: He wants it to be a consumer guide. Images from the book will be exhibited at the National Museum of Health and Medicine at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., through 2006 and at other museums in the months ahead. Tsiaras broke away from the opening of the Washington, D.C., exhibition to discuss the book. |
| Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:00:00 EST Mortimer B. Zuckerman: Getting back on track |
| The proverbial man from Mars, landing today, might wonder if we are all off our rockers. He will ask to be taken to our leader, but it will be hard to break through the White House bubble, and when we do find him, we encounter the leader of the free world preoccupied with domestic turmoil--beleagured by the rebellion of the right over the unfortunate Harriet Miers--and bothered even more now by the exposure of the grimy political machinery of a secretive administration in the Valerie Plame/CIA affair. |
| Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:00:00 EST John Leo: The new McGovernites |
| The editor of "The New Republic" suggested the other day that "the new liberal political culture emerging on the Internet" looks a lot like the McGovernite revolution that descended on the Democratic Party in 1972. In a lecture at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Peter Beinart said the mostly young Internet activists are clearly taking over the party. If so, this would be the first ray of sunshine for conservatives and Republicans in almost a year. The McGovern movement severely damaged the party, pushing it toward four presidential defeats in five tries, until Bill Clinton won by dragging the party back to the center in 1992. If the Internet people had prevailed in 2004, Howard Dean would have won the nomination and then been buried in an enormous landslide, just like George McGovern. |
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