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...Although the 16-to-27-year-old women have grown up in an isolated environment where the -isms of Western art were largely unknown or unaccepted, their work bears traces of impressionism, abstract geometry, abstract expressionism and even surrealism. Yet "the paintings retain their uniqueness through the freedom of choice of their creators, who learned different styles of painting and developed them," says Hamid Naweed, an art professor at Kabul University. "So the individual, original idea remains...
...TIME: When we last met two years ago, Kabul's first major suicide bomb went off during our interview. Since then the militants have grown ever stronger. There have been many devastating attacks, plus an attempt on your life. The casualties will only get worse, I fear. And did you see what's happening in Pakistan? Why would someone go and blow himself up in a hospital? Who are they, what are they? It cannot be justified. You can fight people anywhere, anyplace, but you don't kill people in a hospital. It's crazy...
...sure as a prospective employer we're spreading our net as wide as possible to attract the best possible candidates who fully represent the diversity of U.K. society," says a senior Whitehall source. Summerskill suggests that gay candidates may even have an advantage over straight rivals. "If you have grown up as part of a minority community, you're probably more used to fitting in and being inconspicuous," he says. "You have a distinct skill set that...
...competition for business in the City weren't fierce enough, the financial quarter has a rival on its own doorstep. Canary Wharf, the financial district that has grown out of abandoned docklands to the east of the City in recent years, is already home to Citigroup, HSBC and Bank of America. And on Aug. 1, JPMorgan ditched plans to build its European headquarters in the City in favor of a development across town in Canary Wharf. (Rivals Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch remain in the City, though...
...second most prone to such incidents. Indeed, cheerleaders suffered more injuries than all other school athletes combined - about 65% of severe injuries on the high school level and 67% on the college level. These findings confirm what many in this sport have worried about for years: as cheerleading has grown more competitive, athletes are willing to take greater risks. And because there are no established regulations for reporting cheerleading injuries, "there are definitely more accidents out there that we haven't even heard about yet," says the study's lead author, Fred Mueller...