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...Graduating this fall, Collins plans to do just that. Working for the Field Band Foundation in South Africa, he will be teaching music to children in townships as well as making a documentary on his experience. “The arts are the fabric of society in many ways,” says Collins. “Without the arts you don’t really have a function of society. Culture is built on the arts. It’s all shown me that what I’m doing is important and necessary...
...education during the terrible years of the Cultural Revolution. A master tailor, Liang, 59, was due to retire until he saw the photograph. It inspired him to hold onto his needle and thread, and delve into the old craft of making toys from spare cuts of fabric. Today, he sells the fruits of his labors from a cubbyhole-sized store just across from the Confucius Temple in Beijing's historic Dongcheng district...
...given a series of lectures on humans’ duties to animals, told the crowd that part of the reason why animal cruelty has not received significant attention is because unethical practices have been ingrained in our daily culture. “Cruelty to animals is built into the fabric of our lives,” she said. “It’s built into our language, just as sexism is.” While Korsgaard acknowledged that it is difficult to avoid compromising ethical standards, she said that individual action was an important step forward, pointing...
...Anglo-Afghan war-the Eton and Oxford alumnus looks and sometimes sounds like an unreconstructed colonial nawab. He clasps his hands behind his head, exposing a pair of malachite cufflinks that glitter against gleaming white cuffs. "The secret to a good suit," he muses, "is using a heavy wool fabric. It keeps the shape much better...
...course there is no special merit in things like chain restaurants and local government, except that they are part of the fabric that binds Americans together. That should be enough to endear them to us. If not, what does a Harvard graduate working on Wall Street have in common with the schoolteachers and cops whose retirement funds she manages...