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...River?and to make room for a separate Palestinian state. That is a painful but pragmatic recognition of realities, as Olmert himself admits. A portion of his election-night speech was directed to his fan in Khartoum?Abbas. "We are ready to compromise and give up parts of our land that we love," Olmert said, "where the best of our sons and fighters are buried and, with a heavy heart, to evacuate the Jews who live there in order to allow us to fulfill your dream and live alongside us, in your state, in lasting peace...
...report on the protests by farmers throughout the Chinese countryside sparked concern from readers over the government's failure to tackle the causes: corruption, pollution and land grabs...
...dull. With farmland and forests disappearing and water running out, Yu says, cities can't afford be so wasteful: "China needs a dramatic shift. We've misunderstood what it means to be developed. We need to develop a new system, a new vernacular, to express the changing relationship between land and people." When Yu, now 42, returned home in 1997 with a doctorate in design from Harvard and a teaching appointment at Peking University's Architecture Center, landscape design wasn't even an officially recognized profession. The country had a long tradition of private gardens cultivated by gentry, and more...
...city's poplar-lined roads. This "farmerist outlook," as Yu describes his own first impressions of Beijing, is the reason Chinese cities look the way they do: "We're a country of farmers. When we make it to the city we want to feel as far away from the land as possible. We hate weeds. We want to look up at tall buildings. We shun nature." To be truly urban, Yu says, China needs a new attitude toward...
...group of local leaders took Yu on a tour of their project. Chalk lines marking the lake's proposed shores ran through villages and along roads. Yu leapt out of the car to take photos of a pair of bulldozers that looked tiny against the vast swath of empty land where they were mounding up dirt. Bounding past the officials, he turned his camera on a bird's nest high up in a poplar next to the mineral spring supposed to supply the lake. "He even takes pictures of that," marveled one official when Yu was out of earshot. Driving...