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...affordable digital cameras, these days anyone can click a shutter and produce a technically competent picture. So it's appropriate that the first-ever Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF), set to take place from Oct. 8 to 31, took an egalitarian approach to submissions. "Our curators went through a blind selection process, and to lower barriers to entry, we [decided to] undertake the printing of all the works," says Gwen Lee, the festival's director and founder of the 2902 photography gallery. It's a generous move by the not-for-profit festival, given that a digital print of around...
Ever since Palin took the stage, Obama's aides have seemed especially clueless about how to react to her and almost blind to her cultural power as a middle-class mom with five kids and an NRA card. They seemingly can't decide whether to attack her as a book-banning Bush-of-the-North extremist who brought partisanship and cronyism to small-town government, dismiss her as a provincial novice in over her head, brand her as a double-talker who opposes pork only when it isn't hers, or simply ignore her. According to a TIME poll, McCain...
...forces have been entering Pakistan for the last six years. But it was always very quietly, usually no more than a hundred yards in, and usually to meet a friendly tribal chieftain. Pakistan knew about these crossings, but it turned a blind eye because it was never splashed across the front page of the country's newspapers. This has all changed in the last month, as the Administration stepped up Predator missile attacks. And then, after the New York Times ran an article that U.S. forces were officially given the go-ahead to enter Pakistan without prior Pakistani permission, Pakistan...
...focused on FEMA’s preparedness and lauded local responses to severe weather, it is clear that there is much room for improvement. This potential for growth remains particularly crucial when placed in a context that extends beyond U.S. borders into the Caribbean. We cannot turn a blind eye to the suffering of our island neighbors, nor can we forget the potential for disaster if FEMA’s operations do not continue to improve. Americans, and the world, deserve better than our current state of disaster management...
...Greer said it was too soon to advise young people to stop drinking Red Bull altogether, calling for a double-blind placebo study before making definitive recommendations...