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...South African entrepreneur named Mike Nunn, who was buying tanzanite from local miners, spotted an opportunity. He recalls drinking a beer on the hood of his Land Cruiser?the snow on "Kili" pink in the sun's glow?and studying the mining operations below. He had come from the Block D zone reserved for small-scale miners and was headed to Block B, a second area for locals, studded like D with a jumble of corrugated-iron roofs, holes and ladders marking each small claim. But between them was a large dirt stretch with no activity. He made inquiries...
...generation of young iconoclasts. Majerus made waves by painting the entire façade of the Italian pavilion at the 1999 Venice Biennale with a pastiche of famous artworks. In 2002 he covered Berlin's famed Brandenburg Gate with a digital rendering of a graffiti-blighted East Berlin housing block...
...education.” Cooper held off on the Harvard inking until his junior year. “I waited until it was obvious that I would graduate,” he explained. The inspiration behind Harvard tattoos varies. Thomas E. Rodger ’08 claims his block H tattoo—in the style of the Harvard football helmet—is “more of a football tattoo than for the actual school.” Nik A. Sobic ’06-’07, a self-described tattoo-skeptic, chose to commemorate...
...even museums, now individuals can bring favorite pieces home, if only for a few months. The Seattle Museum of Art has had such a great response to its leasing program that it recently moved its leasing gallery from inside the museum to a larger, more prominent location a block away. Last month 75% of its transactions were rentals as opposed to sales. Because the program offers three-month leases at 9% of the purchase price, the gallery has seen a wide variety of renters, from art students leasing their professors' works to beginning collectors and, increasingly, home stagers?people hired...
...such as the exodus of African Americans out of poor neighborhoods. “Getting access to better neighborhoods erodes the salience of race for African Americans,” Gay says. She thinks this will present a challenge to politicians accustomed to appealing to a single black voting block. But Gay isn’t blind to nonbinary colors.She is now investigating how economic disparities within neighborhoods influence relationships between blacks and Latinos. Material deprivation can drive hostility between groups, she found.“You have two minorities, small in number, that you think can share an affinity?...