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...play is a set of 17 multilingual, multimedia vignettes centered around a theatrical construct named “Anne,” the production’s closest approximation of a main character...

Author: By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Attempts’ Tries Innovative Theater | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...Real ID Act of 2005 allowed the Department of Homeland Security to construct infrastructure along our nation’s borders with immunity from all government laws and regulations. Using the power granted under this act, the Secretary waived the impact assessment requirements of both the Endangered Species Act and National Environmental Protection Act. Thus, the border wall’s construction—which took place on some of the most ecologically valuable land in the country—went ahead without any consideration of its impact on the native species that call this area home...

Author: By A. patrick Behrer | Title: Reflecting on the Wall | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

...mounting hostility to Westerners is one reason Total opted to hire thousands of Yemenis to construct its new natural-gas facility, despite the fact that most needed extensive training. The company says Yemenis comprised about 70% of the 11,000 or so people who built the project. Total even negotiated separately with each of the 22 tribes whose land the pipeline travels through in order to avoid angering locals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yemen-Saudi Skirmishes Threaten a Wider Conflict | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...What They're Building in China: After two decades of on-again, off-again talks, China has agreed to let Walt Disney pursue plans to construct a 1,000-acre (40 hectare) theme park in Shanghai, at an estimated cost of nearly $4 billion--one of the largest foreign investments in the country's history. Disney already operates a theme park in Hong Kong, which has struggled because of travel restrictions and visa requirements that limit access for many of China's 1.3 billion residents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

...believe the greatest height a novelist can attain is the ability to construct the form of the novel as an enigma,” Pamuk said. “Writing or reading a novel requires us to integrate all of our knowledge about the world...

Author: By Clio C. Smurro, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pamuk Gives Last Norton Lecture | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

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