Once in Africa, the clothes undergo a transformation like inanimate objects coming to life in a fairy tale.
The differences were striking: students who walked freely were better at generating creative uses for the objects — coming up with over 25 percent more original ideas.
The 90 objects coming to Salem — Buddhist paintings, lacquer screens, jade carving, trompe-l'oeil murals, all on loan from Beijing — are the merest tip of a flamboyantly decorative pack-rat heap.
Today, with limited financing, NASA supports modest telescopes in the southwestern United States and in Hawaii that make more than 95 percent of the discoveries of the objects coming near the Earth.
The Chinese defence ministry ordered all aircraft flying through the zone to notify Chinese authorities in advance, warning that it would "identify, monitor, control and react to" any air threats or unidentified flying objects coming from the sea.
The opening of Asia Society's glinting and glowing show of pre-Islamic art from Iran turned into something of a cliffhanger late last week when dozens of objects coming from Paris were held up by customs at Kennedy International Airport.
