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...British, trying to hold together an ethnic patchwork of a colony, knew too well the perils of Burma's tribal politics. They resorted to divide-and-conquer schemes, much as the current military regime has done. Intense negotiations by the junta led to many ethnic insurgencies laying down their guns in the 1980s and '90s - and opened up a vast territory for resource exploitation. But as the inequities between the Burmese majority and the tribal groups - the Arakanese, the Shan, the Kachin, the Karen, the Mon, the Wa and the Chin, to name a few - yawns ever wider, the chance...
...That kind of change has been good for Marks & Spencer. In 2007 the British food and clothing chain launched an in-house environmental campaign called Plan A - "because there is no Plan B for the planet," explains Mark Barry, the company's sustainable-development manager. Scrapping traditional charitable donations, Marks & Spencer budgeted $215 million for a five-year program that included cutting the company's fuel and electricity use, charging customers for plastic bags and sourcing merchandise from green factories and farms. Barry says Plan A is so far paying for itself because it has lowered the company's energy...
Annette Hames, a British psychologist and an expert on how children conceive disability, says that anyone, special needs or not, would struggle to identify with these "odd-looking" dolls. Besides, she says, "Down Syndrome isn't about what you look like. It's about what you can and cannot...
...long time ago, when a Hilton was a hotel and Big Brother was a character in a book, there was acting and the stage - and a generation of British actors to whom those were the only things that mattered. On any given night in the small provincial theaters of Britain of the 1960s, you might catch the likes of Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Ben Kingsley, Vanessa Redgrave or Patrick Stewart plying their trade. All were born or grew up during World War II, many in northern English counties known for their booming diction, and all shared the same obsession. Says...
...into a big screen star. This year, he can be seen on the stage around Britain as Estragon in Waiting for Godot, and on television in the U.S. and Britain opposite Jim Caviezel as the villainous No. 2 in a remake (partly shot in South Africa) of the 1960s British cult series, The Prisoner. He combines high art and mass appeal once more next year when filming begins on The Hobbit, a fourth movie adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's books, in which he will again appear as the great wizard Gandalf. McKellen claims no great strategy for combining critical...