Spotlights On Our Global Village As A New Society
Decadent’ Russian Art, Still Under the Boot’s Shadow By ELLEN BARRY Published: March 7 th, Story reprinted from NYT MOSCOW — Later this week moviegoers in New York will learn the strange story of Igor V. Savitsky, an obsessive collector credited with saving tens of thousands of avant-garde artworks from Soviet authorities who forced artists…
Somali refugees forced to flee drought are continuing their lives in camps across the border in Ethiopia. Resilience is hardly the word for the refugees that have trekked across the desert from deep in Somalia to Dolo Ado just over the Ethiopian border. There is a stoicism – an inner toughness – that hides the…
Europe’s Economic Gap Sparks New Internal Immigration, From Spain To Germany Spurred by soaring unemployment at home and Berlin’s active recruitment of skilled workers, young educated Spaniards are heading for Germany like southern Europeans last century. By Freia Peters Even though she’s lucky to have a job in Spain, Julia Casado Marco wonders if…
Secrets And Shortcomings Of China’s Mammoth Rare Earth Industry Analysis: China’s approach to rare earth mining is putting it at odds with the WTO. China’s Economic Observer outlines where China’s gone wrong, and what it needs to do to set the industry straight. Rare earth oxides By Chen Jibing BEIJING – The World Trade Organization’s Dispute…
‘UNTHINKABLE’ Geithner Says No Deal Is Not An Option Precariously short of time, congressional leaders struggled in urgent, weekend-long talks to avert an unprecedented government default, desperate to show enough progress to head off a plunge in stock prices when Asian markets open ahead of the U.S. workweek. President Barack Obama met Saturday with Republican…
Amsterdam Decides It’s High Time To Squash Its Squatters The squatter movement has long had a foothold in the Netherlands’ canal-carved economic capital. As evidenced by a major early July raid, authorities are now looking to send its squatters packing. Squatters during a 2009 demonstration in Amsterdam, Holland AMSTERDAM — The Mobile Unit was…
Tiger Woods, Steve Williams Split: Star Golfer Gets Rid Of Caddie Tiger Woods and Steve Williams were together for 12 years and some 250 tournaments, a player-caddie relationship that produced 72 wins, 13 majors and a friendship so strong that each served in the other’s wedding. It ended Wednesday with a stock line from Woods…
GODSON OF SOUL He ‘Splits Open The Room’ When He Performs: James Brown Impersonator Gets Own Exhibit
THE LAST TOUCHDOWN PHOTOS: Shuttle Returns To Earth For The Final TimeBelow CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Atlantis and four astronauts returned from the International Space Station in triumph Thursday, bringing an end to NASA’s 30-year shuttle journey with one last, rousing touchdown that drew cheers and tears. A record crowd of 2,000 gathered…
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