But Carol Willis, the founding director of the Skyscraper Museum (and therefore a client of Mr. Duffy), urged the landmarks commission to approve the "unabashedly modern" alterations.
It can also display more of its permanent collection of about 2,000 historical and contemporary works, which are thematically focused on land and the environment and include more than 600 photographs by artists like Richard Misrach and Frank Gohlke that depict mining sites, housing developments and other modern alterations of the Western topography.
My guess, based on nothing except listening to the take repeatedly, is that it's a modern alteration of an old tape created to match a line in a studio log.
Many of the challenges associated with that feat remain today; even with modern engineering alterations to the mouth of the river, the strong currents and shifting sandbar make it dangerous to pass between the river and the Pacific Ocean.
Barrett opens "Charlotte" in familiar territory, giving us Austen's own words, with minor alterations: modern spellings, punctuation, paragraphing.
In honor of Valentine's Day they are bringing back (with some alterations) "A Modern Person's Guide to Hooking Up and Breaking Up," featuring works by Berlin, Sondheim, Bolcom, Coward and others.
Development of modern civilization led to alteration in the lifestyle as well as food habits of the people both in urban and rural areas which led to increased use of junk food containing high level of fat.
Seventhly, a new generation of learners is emerging that should survive the technological alterations of the modern mind (Small and Vorgan 2008).
"We really don't know the full neurological effects of these technologies yet," said Dr. Gary Small, director of the Longevity Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of "iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind".
"We take for granted this highly repeated memory storage that allows us to function so well," Dr. Gary Small, the director of U.C.L.A.'s Memory and Aging Research Center, and the author of "iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind," said last week, after first asking if he could switch to another line and repeating his caller's number aloud, to exercise his frontal lobe.
Gary Small, a neuroscientist and professor of psychiatry at U.C.L.A. and an author of "iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind," believes that so-called "digital natives," a term for the generation that has grown up using computers, are already having a harder time reading social cues.
