Word: disappearers
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...Villagers told a TIME reporter that even though they knew their chickens were likely dying of bird flu in August, they did not alert livestock officials because they believed the government would cull their poultry?including fighting cocks worth as much as $480 each. "We hoped it would just disappear," says villager Chanpen Rachsawang...
...great career move. One disadvantage of that fertility, though, is that he can spread too many seeds, too many messages. Is he for the free market or not? Where does the ladder of opportunity begin - and end? Do politicians listen or lead? Some of his enthusiasms flare only to disappear. Whatever happened to Latham's Lifelong Learning Accounts, a national insurance scheme to provide individual choice in education? There's been no progress on the ownership agenda Latham once trumpeted. A couple of years ago, says a Labor colleague, "he was into matched savings accounts, nest egg accounts, employee share...
...Killing Time, 2003-2004, a still-life table overflowing with the sea creatures of Swallow's Australian childhood in the Victorian fishing town of San Remo. Like the other Venice works, it is carved from the light, blond wood of the rubber tree, jelutong. Any paler and it would disappear into the walls. Up close, the forensic detail - a lobster springs up with the alacrity of an ocean wave, the rind of a lemon dangles spellbound over the table's edge - can send shivers up spines...
...vanished. At least one of the doctored photos was released by the Xinhua news agency?which implies either official complicity or a massive goof. Either way, "it can only be embarrassing for Jiang," says an editor from a Party-run newspaper, because "someone very publicly wants him to disappear...
...about art but especially for museum officials and gallery owners, who know how vulnerable their treasures are. Nothing could be worse than the thought of a canvas as important as The Scream, Edvard Munch's indelible image of a man howling against the backdrop of a blood-red sky, disappearing into a criminal underworld that doesn't care much about the niceties of art conservation. Art theft is a vast problem around the world. As many as 10,000 precious items of all kinds disappear each year. And for smaller museums in particular, it may not be a problem they...