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...graphic literature with its more commercial relations, video games, movies and toys to be a refreshing re-contextualization of indy artist's work. While smaller, alty-friendly cons like the Small Press Expo and the MOCCA Art Festival are important places for like-minded artists and fans to gather, an event like San Diego allows the temporary collapse of borders between the balkanized factions of pop-culture fandom. In this sense, the Comic Con International may be a far more democratic convention than either of this election-year's events...
...single strike breaks the rock in two, revealing a mass of bone in each piece. Creaser gazes at what he recognizes to be the jaws of a largish animal, one that perished some 24 million years ago. But what kind of animal? The others gather around, including Archer, who's one of Australia's best at classifying - all but instantly - what would look to most people like generic bone. "The finest specimen of a marsupial lion jaw that's ever been found," he declares. It seems to have belonged, he explains later, to a previously unknown, intermediate species of this...
...sits at a desk buried in paper, blinds drawn, looking out over his newsroom, a large, open-spaced office filled with clocks, cluttered desks, chattering televisions and people hunched intently over computers, fingers punching at keyboards. It's evening outside, and in inner-city Surry Hills young office workers gather in bars, empty energy drink cans litter footpaths, and trains zip past in bursts of sound and light. The Sydney newsroom is fired up too, but its juice isn't caffeine or alcohol: it's news...
...scientists and activists from around the world gather this week in Bangkok for the 15th international AIDS conference, two new reports from the U.N. warn that Thailand's triumph may be in jeopardy. While Thai men are no longer visiting brothels in the numbers they once did, there has been an increase in extramarital affairs and casual sex, and condom use has fallen dramatically. Meanwhile, HIV infection rates have spiked among young people, pregnant women and intravenous-drug users...
Walla Walla is abuzz with growth. There's a touch of theater, art galleries and about 40 wineries. Start your tour at Grapefields Wine Bar & Cafe, where the local winemakers gather and gab. Spend time there and soak up the recommendations--it's the place to mix and get the scoop on the hottest wines, both new and venerable. If you leave Walla Walla thinking you have just stumbled onto the next big wine thing, you just might be right...