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Making amends is the central room of "Prism." Here Warlpiri artist Dorothy Napangardi's black-and-white paintings of salt plains, glittering like dark crystals, peacefully cohabit with Iranian-born Hossein Valamanesh's Fallen Branch, 2005. With the latter, the Adelaide-based sculptor has fashioned a circular, ceaselessly interconnecting series of bronze twigs that could well stand as a symbol for this subtly shape-shifting show. By redefining the perspective of Australian art, "Prism" shows that its indigenous and non-indigenous branches spring from the same growing tree...
...deaf world, the fight over radicalism was forced on a fragile, just emerging sense of identity by technology and the law. Since 1988, the definition of who is "deaf enough" has been ratcheted up as barriers to the deaf have fallen away. Many parents have their deaf infants surgically equipped with cochlear implants; depending on how much hearing they gain, those kids will grow up with little or no connection to the deaf world. Federal law requires schools to accommodate deaf students, meaning more deaf kids can go to any high school and college they want, not just oases like...
...situation in Australia. Output there doubled in a decade, but now the country is swimming in unsold wine. And unlike France, Australia has no safety net of subsidized distillation. Mark McKenzie, executive director of the trade group Wine Grape Growers Australia, says incomes for some growers have fallen by 60% in the past two years. The situation is so bad that the group petitioned the government to pay severely affected farmers not to grow grapes. (The government, which frequently gripes about the handouts Europe gives its farmers, refused.) "It's as bad as I've seen it in 46 years...
...TIME: Why do you think your efforts to equate the struggle for gay rights with the fight against apartheid has fallen on deaf ears among many African Anglican leaders? Tutu: I wish I knew. We seem almost to be programmed to have our identity defined by our againstness. Especially in a time of great change, people want something to hold on to. Diversity confuses you, so you are opposed...
...Chavez inherited on taking power in 1998 has been one of the toughest challenges of government - and it is attracting more attention as he campaigns for reelection in December. Chavez, a leftist who loves to provoke the Bush administration, is a self-styled champion of the poor but has fallen short in keeping his housing promises. Although Venezuela has stepped up construction of new houses this year, it still needs a further 1.6 million new units to meet the shortfall in low-income housing needs, according to official figures. Only around one-eighth of that total has been built under...