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...Sankuru in central Congo. Measuring 11,803 sq. mi. (30,750 sq km)--or roughly the size of Massachusetts--the area will serve as a sanctuary not only for bonobos but also for 10 other species of primates as well as elephants and the endangered okapi, a short-necked cousin of the giraffe. As remarkable as the protection the reserve will provide is the fact that such a set-aside got created at all. Trying to carve so pastoral a corner out of so violent a country is never easy, and the particular way conservationists went about establishing this...
Today Marimekko casually thwarts a fashion system that decrees that if your not-so-stylish cousin in the burbs wears it then it's not cool enough for trendsetters like Manolo Blahnik or Anna Sui. Yet both designers are proudly part of a global club known as the Marimekkoites. Sui has been collecting vintage examples of the cheerful prints for years, and this spring Blahnik has created three shoe styles in Marimekko prints. H&M has launched a capsule collection this month featuring the most popular patterns from the 1950s to the 1970s. "Marimekko feels so modern," says Blahnik...
...easily the album’s best track—stabs wildly with a soaring chorus that stomps feet and pumps fists into fuzzy bliss. Benson’s only solid performance is “Five’s” smoothed-out cousin, “Attention,” that burns on verses of pure, exhilarating power chords, chopped up with the kind of funky breakdowns that are missing from the rest of the album. “Rich Kid Blues” builds steadily, even brilliantly, into a jam-session explosion where, for once, White?...
...also money. According to Afghans, judges routinely accept bribes for favorable verdicts. Mohammad Mumtaz, an Afghan businessman visiting from the U.S., tells the story of a cousin's property dispute gone bad. His opponent paid a higher bribe to the court, and his cousin landed in jail for trying to get a squatter off his land. But it turned out OK, says Mumtaz. The cousin went through a broker who was a friend of the judge, paid $6500, and was released a month early. Such stories take on a more somber note when criminals and alleged members of the Taliban...
...Cube’s whackedout cousin, cranking out curveball rap that was the jungle gym to N.W.A’s roughhouse. After a psilocybin-and-videogames induced hiatus, he gifted hip-hop with the formation of his Oakland based funk-rap group Hieroglyphics. A few years later he joined forces with kitsch producer Dan the Automator and DJ Kid Koala to churn out the futuristic cult classic “Deltron...