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...what's coming into the U.S. is replicas or tourist art that's being made to look old." The problem is so widespread that even Bryna Freyer, the Smithsonian's African-art curator, can't always spot a phony. "I'm not sure I'd know an authentic Bura piece from a fake," says Freyer, referring to 2nd century artifacts from Niger, "because there simply aren't any in this country legally...
...loaned some $118 billion since its inception. It has helped finance housing and sewage systems in the Brazilian slums of the city of Recife, irrigation systems in India and the construction of electrical generating plants in Thailand. Occasionally the bank comes a cropper. One dud project: the $110 million Bura irrigation scheme in Kenya, in which the World Bank participated and which the country's President, Daniel arap Moi, last January denounced as "a failure, a disgrace and the height of mismanagement." But usually the bank's efforts lead to solid accomplishments. A dramatic case is a twelve-year...
...harsh environment. These are just some of the well-documented facts, and fall short of doing justice to describing the magnitude of the internees' ordeal. And as the recent hearings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians so dramatically showed, the humiliation and the anger still bura deeply, the wounds remain open...
...General Hawley announced that the Veterans' Administration-for the first time in history-plans to spend $1,000,000 a year for prosthetic research. ¶ Walter Bura, a 31-year-old civilian amputee with a bent for engineering, was appointed chief of the VA Division of Prosthetic Devices with the job of speeding new inventions to the wearable stage. Bura, who walks so well himself that no one realizes his leg is off above the knee, is credited with having "revolutionized" the Army's methods of teaching amputees to walk...
...Brae Bura.--B. W. Estabrook '14 vs. T. Frothingham '13, J. G. MeNeil '13 vs. C. N. Holman '13. Matches will start as near 2 o'clock as possible. Candidates who have not yet reported should leave their names with F. Sargent, Claverly...
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