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...Croft have had to traverse the country by plane, 4WD and e-mail, signing off on designs while negotiating sensitive copyright issues with Paris; in one case, an artist's contract couldn't be signed until the floodwaters had receded from her remote community. "It's not only a cross-nation collaboration," says Perkins. "It's inter-cultural as well, and then also between the strands of architecture, curatorship and the arts." Not to mention language. English and French were easy compared to Kuninjku, Gumatj, Gija, Pitjantjatjara, Pintupi, Wiradjuri and Waanyi, all of which buttress this cross-cultural cathedral...
...explosion was most likely caused by vandalism. The pipeline, which ran under a beach, had been uncovered. Small holes had been drilled in it through which thieves could tap off fuel. The leaking pipeline had attracted local villagers who were filling containers when it blew. Nigeria's Red Cross said that the explosion ignited hundreds of cans full of fuel. Yet incidents like last week's tragedy are not the greatest danger to Nigeria's oil industry. Nigerians have long vandalized pipelines, and some of the operations are organized and professional. In the Delta, gangs of bandits have prowled...
...idle farms. In reality, though, human-rights advocates say the army has begun seizing food from peasant farmers, raising fears that this year's harvest will be confiscated to feed soldiers and tighten control over rural opposition strongholds. "All basic foods are now under direct military control," says Eddie Cross, an economist and adviser to the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. The latest exercise - dubbed Operation Taguta/ Sisuthi or "eat well" - has been disastrous, according to a report released last month by the Solidarity Peace Trust, a South African human-rights group. The group says the army has left communities...
...link analysis, searching for patterns--a burst of calls from pay phones in Detroit to cell phones in Pakistan, for instance. The NSA can whittle down the hundreds of millions of phone numbers harvested to hundreds of thousands that fit certain profiles it finds interesting; those in turn are cross-checked with other intelligence databases to find, perhaps, a few thousand that warrant more investigation. "That data can be extremely useful, even if you never know who is on the other end of the phones," says Bryan Cunningham, an ex-CIA lawyer and former deputy legal adviser to the National...
ABIODUN OREBIYI, secretary-general of the Nigerian Red Cross, on the more than 150 people who died in the explosion of a fuel pipeline from which scavengers were siphoning gasoline...