Word: homelands
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...exhibitions mark Zhou's first foray into her homeland's feverish art scene. Demand for contemporary Chinese art has exploded in the past few years, but her personal feelings are mixed. "Some of the work is good; some of it I don't feel as close to," she says. Perhaps that's a product of her international upbringing. She spent her early childhood in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou before moving with her parents to Rome and taking art lessons after school. At university in London and Paris, she studied political science, but drifted back to the art world...
...popular perception that Gustav was a false alarm. That perception is partly driving what's been dubbed "hurricane fatigue," but also complacency: many residents say they won't evacuate for Ike, or future hurricanes. To counter such sentiment, Mark Cooper, director of the Louisiana Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, says, "All we have to do is talk about what happened during Katrina, and they'll realize what needs to be done." Earlier this week, when Ike was projected to hit Louisiana directly, "the governor could have easily said, 'We're going to evacuate.' But we want...
...midday, however, the storm had taken a northwestern turn, which brought it closer to Baton Rouge than was predicted. Winds were gusting at more than 70 m.p.h. in the metro Baton Rouge area, where top local, state and federal officials - including Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, Senator David Vitter and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff - were hunkered down to monitor the storm...
...civilians dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. Mindanao, long home to a simmering insurgency, exploded into violence in August after the country's Supreme Court halted an agreement between government negotiators and the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) that would have set boundaries for a semi-autonomous Muslim homeland. In apparent frustration with the stalled negotiations, two rogue MILF commanders have been accused of leading their fighters on a murderous rampage in two nearby provinces...
...President Dick Cheney to decide to skip the Republican National Convention, which was supposed to begin Monday in St. Paul, Minn. The White House announced that Bush was heading to Texas Monday to monitor emergency response efforts, and Republican officials have already postponed most of Monday's convention activities. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff headed to the region Sunday and planned to stay for the duration of the storm...