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Reconstructing shredded documents
Dutch move the modernized windmill into town
Flash drives: always on the go, without moving parts
Rotterdam round-up: hybrids and affinities
Moving the garbage underground
Roving the globe, laptops alight on wireless hot spots
Dutchtub, a 'new way of outdoor bathing'
Mental block: brain-computer interfaces
Connecting paper and online worlds by cellphone camera
Review of Jan De Cock, S.M.A.K., Ghent
Visa procedures blocking European musicians from the U.S. since 9-11
Review of Pawel Althamer, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht
Review of Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani, SMBA Amsterdam
The doctors were real, the patients undercover
A computer that has an eye for Van Gogh

Reconstructing shredded documents

Advanced scanning technology makes it possible to reconstruct documents previously thought safe from prying eyes, sometimes even pages that have been ripped into confetti-size pieces.

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Dutch move the modernized windmill into town

The environmentally-conscious Dutch are experimenting with urban turbines in city centers. Light, quiet and efficient, they can be placed unobtrusively on rooftops and generate up to 7,000 kilowatt hours of electricity a year, more than enough to power an average Dutch home.

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Flash drives: always on the go, without moving parts

From humble origins as geeky novelties, thumb-size U.S.B. flash drives have grown into a billion-dollar market.

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Rotterdam round-up: hybrids and affinities

Though Rotterdam plays host to weighty institutions, many local artists indicate that they nonetheless go abut their work much as artists do in cities that don’t boast such a rich cultural infrastructure.

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Moving the garbage underground

Collecting the garbage becomes a one-man operation: the truck pulls up, attaches a cable to the container, lifts it up, turns it over, and puts it back into the ground, an eight-minute process that also does away with mistossed bags splattering in the street.

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Roving the globe, laptops alight on wireless hot spots

With Internet access becoming a necessity for many travelers, typing e-mail on a stained keyboard in a local cybercafe has lost its charm.

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Dutchtub, a "new way of outdoor bathing"

It requires no electricity, plumbing or hot water. Just fill it with water, put firewood in the bin, light it up, wait a while and enjoy a 100-degree soak.

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Mental block: brain-computer interfaces

Controlling objects with just your thoughts has been a dream of sci-fi from “Star Trek” to Star Wars, but in the past few years that dream has inched closer to reality.

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Connecting paper and online worlds by cellphone camera

Focusing your camera phone on a code and then clicking any button launches a wireless service -- for example, the ability to buy a train ticket, check an airplane's departure time, or download a ring tone from a store display.

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Review of Jan De Cock, S.M.A.K., Ghent

Museums, libraries, and old banks are all freighted with tainted history, hosting cultural heirlooms of sometimes questionable provenance.

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Visa procedures blocking European musicians from the U.S. since 9-11

Tales of musicians from nations like Syria and Cuba being kept at bay by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (formerly the INS) have become commonplace since 9-11. But European and Canadian musicians, too, are finding the consular walls unmanageably high.

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Review of Pawel Althamer, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht

Althamer describes his drug-related experiences in great detail, striving for the accuracy of a scientist charting the borders of perception, noting the most minute facets of the wondrous stimuli around him.

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Review of Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani, SMBA Amsterdam

The history of grandiloquent architecture is a long and rich one, and Berlin-based artists Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani explored this history in Amsterdam’s ‘South Axis’ development project, a playground of gleaming office towers with interchangeable names like Eurocenter, Forum and Atrium...

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The doctors were real, the patients undercover

It had all the markings of a television detective show. Posing as patients, three undercover observers got themselves admitted as patients to a locked psychiatric ward to investigate conditions on the inside. And a remote team monitored the project via hidden cameras and microphones from a command center in a nearby hotel.

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A computer that has an eye for Van Gogh

Now a team of researchers in the Netherlands have developed a computer system that quickly examines hundreds of paintings for telltale patterns. The results, they say, can lend credence to existing attributions or help dismiss them.

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