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...households gave up and left. But the 15 or so holdout families were still unprepared for the appearance of a hundred or more police and demolition workers in hard hats on Dec. 12. They were bundled out of their homes and those who resisted were beaten with clubs and iron bars. Then, as they watched from a nearby hilltop, demolition backhoes clanked up and began attacking the walls of their houses like huge, mechanized woodpeckers. By the end of the day, nothing but rubble remained. "They beat me all over," says a 52-year-old farmer whose voice is still...
...particular iron sulfate mineral called jarosite forms only under strongly acidic conditions,” Knoll said. “Its identification in the Martian rocks provides a smoking gun for strongly acidic conditions...
...Yadav is certainly lucky that he's heading Indian Railways during a period of tremendous growth in India. The company is minting money hauling freight for mines thanks to the massive demand for iron ore in China, to cite just one example. But you also have to be clever enough to cash in. Contracts with mining firms are now linked to the price of ore rather than "set in concrete like in the old socialist fashion," says Kumar. "You have to make the best use of the opportunities the global market throws up. Before, we were operating like some Mother...
...Despite Malaysia's choreographed political system, Abdullah is something of an accidental Prime Minister. His iron-fisted predecessor, Mahathir Mohamad, who ruled for 22 years, discarded three potential political heirs before settling on Abdullah in 2003. He was everything Mahathir was not: affable, cautious, nonthreatening. In the wake of several corruption scandals involving some of Mahathir's closest associates, it also helped that Abdullah was regarded as Mr. Clean. Nevertheless, many in Malaysia saw the now 68-year-old as a transitional figure, a placeholder until UMNO found someone more visionary. In January, Mahathir even claimed that he had picked...
...personalities, what they felt was right about the burgeoning, professionalized art world that they encountered in the 1910s, and what was uncomfortable about it. Although outrageously ambitious intellectually, they were rather modest in their output. And if they were the forerunners of artistic cool, they didn't have the iron-hard celebrity gloss that we now associate with successful art. The fun of this exhibition is the evidence of a whole culture or philosophy gradually building up, more or less by chance, from scratch. What you come away with is a great insight into unconventional ways of making art. Duchamp...