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...wanted to wear, and then my friends started liking them, so it began expanding naturally.” Sung’s creative process for coming up with these designs? “Sketch, then make a prototype, and finally make sure the factories can reproduce it in bulk.” But for the FM Fast Fashion Challenge, time is of the essence. Her creative process is more direct: sketch, sew, and braid. At noon on Saturday, four hours before the end of the challenge and six and a half hours before her arrival at The Crimson?...
Crazy for Art. Following its popular 2007 retrospective of self-taught 20th-century artist Martin Ramirez - who produced the bulk of his work while he was a mental patient at the DeWitt State Hospital in Auburn, Calif. - New York City's American Folk Art Museum is now showing 25 newly discovered Ramirez works. These drawings and collages, of horseback riders, trains, landscapes, Madonnas and animals, were done in Ramirez's last years, 1960-63, and collected by a doctor who provided the artist with art supplies. See Martin Ramirez: The Last Words through Apr. 12, 2009. 45 West 53rd Street...
Given the overwhelming slate of potential harm, the aim of the study was to identify early predictors of victimization, along with behavioral interventions that may prevent it. The bulk of past research on the matter involved primary-school-age children, says Michel Boivin, a psychologist at Université Laval in Québec, Canada, and a co-author of the study; the new research tracks behavior in very young kids - as early as those in pre-preschool, when children first begin interacting with one another socially...
...minerals have soared in recent years, rebel groups in Chad, Sudan, Congo and elsewhere are trading valuable oil and mineral deposits in their regions for arms. Rather than seek the backing of friendly foreign officials - as Dos Santos allegedly did in the mid-'90s - combatants can now bulk up on their own dime. "Each group raises its own funds and then negotiates to buy weapons," says Will Hartley of Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Center in London. "Gone are the days when governments will send weapons and cash into African states...
...While he does hold sway over a large mass of the former Taliban command structure, which has largely taken refuge in Pakistan's lawless mountain sanctuaries, the bulk of what is currently known as the Taliban in Afghanistan is made up of disaffected and alienated bands of Pashtun tribesmen who have been leveraged out of their traditional power bases and are disillusioned by the increasingly corrupt and ineffective government in Kabul. The only point that these groups - some of which are made up of opportunistic criminals, narcotics kingpins and smugglers - can agree on is that they are against the Afghan...