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...most famous of the pre-Islamic Persian kings. Khomeini's image is everywhere, painted in oils and hung in heavy frames in hotel lobbies and government buildings and vacant lots, and festooned in glossy photographs over thousands of martyrs' graves. Even his sayings are etched in brass and copper and hung in frames or daubed in paint on the sides of buildings. WHOEVER FIGHTS AGAINST THE TRUTH SHALL BE DEFEATED is one such framed homily, hanging in the baggage hall at Tehran's airport. A short distance away, a blunter sign, painted on the side of a hangar, reads DEATH...
...torch has beckoned for nearly a century as a symbol of hope for people everywhere. But by the time it was taken down 17 months ago, as part of a $230 million restoration of Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, the 4,800-lb. copper beacon had been badly damaged by the elements. Last week a new torch based on the original 1886 design by French Sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was raised 305 ft. to its perch in Liberty's right hand, overlooking New York Harbor. Constructed by a team of artisans from Les Métalliers Champenois...
...Universal School makes clear its independence from the controversial institution right next door, the copper-domed Bridgeview mosque. Built a decade before the school, the mosque was started by moderates but then saw a power struggle in which hard-liners came out on top. Among its leaders, said the Chicago Tribune in an investigative report, "are men who have condemned Western culture ... and encouraged members to view society in stark terms: Muslims against the world." Last year a member of the mosque was indicted for allegedly funneling money, before 9/11, to Hamas, the militant Palestinian group...
...There's a swagger among miners from Mount Isa to Perth, and it's largely thanks to China. Last year, exports to the country soared: nickel by 88%, coal 72%, copper 35%. No longer do miners feel outdated and outsmarted by the dotcom people. China's growing metal consumption is pushing up prices across the board, giving companies the upside they need to commit to exploration and mining projects. Comalco, owned by Rio Tinto, recently commissioned an alumina refinery at Gladstone in central Queensland, the first plant of its kind to be built in the world for 20 years...
...cast and decorated in Ming and Qing Dynasty motifs. But it was an Australia Council?funded trip back to China the following year that equipped him for stardom. There, in a workshop outside Beijing, he became skilled in the 700-year-old techniques of cloisonn?, a painstaking process of copper-wire enameling which he applied to full body-casting. Human human?lotus, cloisonn? figure I, 2000-01, took out Australia's inaugural National Sculpture Prize. With a solo show at New York's Asia Society in 2002, Ah Xian's commercial cachet soared, with prices for his sculptures tripling overnight...