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Gore Vidal: a celebrity, a life writ large

Gore Vidal was known as much for his fierce public spats as he was for collected works that included 25 novels, 200 essays, six plays, several screenplays, and a National Book Award for essays on the United States.
From Our Files: the unvarnished Gore Vidal (+video)

Gore Vidal, who died Tuesday, was a prolific American author, provocateur, and Renaissance man. The Monitor's Daniel B. Wood interviewed Vidal in 2006 at his art-studded home in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills. Here's the story that emerged from that Vidalian encounter.
Trendy threads from waste

Pratibha Syntex could lead in the next textile wave: low-waste, recycled cotton.
Crowdsourcing: The art of a crowd

Crowdsourced art, also known as wiki-art, erases the line between artist and audience.
Opinion: Universities can survive only with radical reform

Schools must break out of their insular mind-set.
Co-opting consumerism

'Manufractured' exhibition takes mass-produced objects and tames them into art.