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...death of these birds, which they believe are a symbol of purity and grace. Since then some 140 dead swans have been found, and the village itself is under strict quarantine. Residents are not allowed to go far. They stand watching the boats go by, but the only craft allowed to dock in Maliuc are military vessels bringing food to the village. The old lady who found the swan, who only days earlier was proud to show visitors her small but well-cared-for flocks, has been compensated, but her birds have been burned and buried in the ground...
...good example of Japan's strategy of selective excellence is the Hayabusa space probe. Launched in May 2003, the robotic craft reached a 300 m by 700 m asteroid called Itokawa last month and set about mapping it. The mission calls for the probe to descend to the surface of this small asteroid next month and remove rock samples before starting the 2.5-year journey home. If successful, the Hayabusa mission will mark the first time material has been recovered from an asteroid in space and returned to Earth...
Enter Ryan M. Travia, an expert on student drinking, who honed his craft at Boston College’s Office of Drug Education and has been the coordinator at Dartmouth’s Alcohol and Drug Education Program for the last two years. He relocated to Boston this past summer and in August took up the Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services director’s chair, a position created this year...
...fiddled with modeling clay and stop motion since he was a kid in Lancashire 40 years ago, the animators seem to be channeling their inner child, the boy (or girl) genius who loved to play with clay. And they know they are part of a glorious anachronism, an ancient craft. "I love The Incredibles," Box, a co-director, says of Pixar Animation Studios' CG hit, "but that's like a Ferrari. Wallace & Gromit is a massive antique tractor. We want that thumby, handmade, handcrafted look...
...Magic happens in life, and you have to take advantage of it," he says. Following encouragement by the workers whose craft he had been documenting, Garcetti published Iron, a striking book of his sky-high images, with all proceeds going to the ironworkers' scholarship fund. He followed that with Frozen Music, a limited-edition photo essay about the completed building. This month his latest work, a dazzling travelogue titled Dance in Cuba, hits the bookstores (published, like his previous books, by Balcony Press...