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Fine Art
2:24 am
Sat February 18, 2012

6 Miles Of Silver Ribbon: Locals Protest Christo

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Credit Wolfgang Volz / Copyright Christo 2007
Artist Christo finances his projects by selling design drawings like this one, a preparatory sketch for the Over the River project on Colorado's Arkansas River.
Credit Megan Verlee for NPR
Christo traveled thousands of miles to find a canyon that suits his Over the River project, but he faces opposition from some locals near his preferred site along the Arkansas River in Colorado.
Credit Jacques Demarthon / AFP/Getty Images
Christo stands next to one of his works at a 2010 exhibition in Paris about the Over the River project. If approved, the installation could begin in the fall.
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Bighorn Sheep Canyon in Colorado holds a chuckling ribbon of water, with a highway running alongside. Artist Christo wants to drape sections of it — almost 6 miles' worth — with long, billowing panels of silvery fabric.

"The silver-color fabric panel will absorb the color," he says. "In the morning, it will become rosy, in the middle of the day, platinum, and [during] the sunset, the fabric will become golden."

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All Tech Considered
9:47 am
Mon February 13, 2012

Blind Look To New Technology, Push Braille Aside

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The National Federation of the Blind estimates that today only one in 10 blind people can read Braille. That's down dramatically from the early 1900s.
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Like a lot of smartphone users, Rolando Terrazas, 19, uses his iPhone for email, text messages and finding a decent coffee shop. But Terrazas' phone also sometimes serves as his eyes: When he waves a bill under its camera, for instance, the phone tells him how much it's worth.

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Governing
12:39 am
Wed January 18, 2012

Secretaries Of State At Center Of Election Battles

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In his first year as Colorado's secretary of state, Republican Scott Gessler has been sued eight times.

He's outraged Democrats by rewriting the state's campaign finance rules, tangled with counties over which voters they can send mail-in ballots to, and attracted national attention for participating in a fundraiser to pay off a campaign finance fine levied by his office.

"We've definitely shaken up the status quo, and I think that's happened a bit in some other states too," he says.

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