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...Minister, Meles Zenawi, said, "While Egypt is taking the Nile water to transform the Sahara into something green, we in Ethiopia - which is the source of 85% of that water - are denied the possibility of using it to feed ourselves." But Ethiopia has several major river basins besides the Blue Nile, as well as fertile land, and if it were to exploit those resources, it would be able to not only feed itself but also become a granary for Africa. When I reminded an Ethiopian diplomat in Cairo not long ago that Egypt, according to Herodotus, "was a gift...
...Council in the U.S., sales by volume of premium tequila jumped by a total of over 50% in 2003 and 2004 - a trend some attribute to increased acceptance of, and appreciation for, Hispanic and Mexican cultures among Stateside consumers. For the uninitiated, proper tequila is the liquor of the blue agave plant, which, contrary to popular belief, is not a cactus but a lily (and strictly speaking, spirits made from other kinds of agave are not tequila at all, but mezcal). Much like whiskey or wine, tequila has its own system of classifications. Tequila that has been aged...
Hayden is the rare officer who managed to earn four stars in the course of a career in military intelligence. A blue-collar kid who drove a taxi to help pay his way through college before joining the Air Force, his first job in 1970 was as an analyst and briefer at the Strategic Air Command in Nebraska. He worked in intelligence in Germany during the Balkans war and in South Korea, and at the National Security Council with Condoleezza Rice during the first Bush Administration. As NSA director, he sometimes dropped in on CIA station chiefs in embassies overseas...
...With their tactile, outside view of country, it's fitting that Thomas' successors adorn the front of the Australian building. Painted to the left of the front doors is Paddy Bedford's Thoowoonggoonarrin, the former stockman's maternal homeland. In tones of blue-black and pinky-white, his diamond-sharp eye excavates the land from above. Raised in relief across three storeys of the fa?ade above are the jimbala spearheads of Lena Nyadbi's paternal country. These spearheads were also used to tattoo the skin of young initiates, and even from oceans away, the architects could feel the artist...
...Judy Watson was another. And around to the left of cloud will be the artist's 11-m-long glass ceiling, inspired by her painting two halves with bailer shell, 2002, in the NGA collection. Floating in a glassy sea of Prussian and ultramarine blue, the sand-blasted image is deceptively beautiful: the Aboriginal bailer shell was drawn from a collection at the British Museum where a friend of Watson's was working last decade, and her work is about the sometimes painful process of cultural retrieval. Watson, 46, who traces her lineage to the Waanyi country of northwest Queensland...