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...Arboretum Assailed Over Plans for Land,” news...
...list of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is hitting increasingly bumpy skies. On the list are the names of people regarded as such serious threats that they should not be allowed on an airplane. Last month a United Airlines plane from London to Washington was forced to land in Maine because a barred passenger, Yusuf Islam, formerly known as the singer Cat Stevens, was onboard. Last week, in an unpublicized but potentially dangerous incident, a Royal Jordanian Airlines flight was allowed to take off from Amman with a Middle Eastern passenger whose name was on the list. Though U.S. officials...
...taking the Nile water to transform the Sahara into something green, we in Ethiopia - which is the source of 85% of that water - are denied the possibility of using it to feed ourselves." But Ethiopia has several major river basins besides the Blue Nile, as well as fertile land, and if it were to exploit those resources, it would be able to not only feed itself but also become a granary for Africa. When I reminded an Ethiopian diplomat in Cairo not long ago that Egypt, according to Herodotus, "was a gift of the Nile," he retorted, "But the Nile...
...that's been rich and sustained over a long period of time," says Susan Hunt, curator of the 1999 show "Terre Napol?on: Australia Through French Eyes." "So this hasn't just come from nowhere." Indeed, during the 1950s, Paris-based artist Karel Kupka was the first to collect Arnhem Land barks as pieces of art, not anthropology; many of them will be displayed for the first time in MQB. "He was the first to recognize the individuality of each artist," says French-born Apolline Kohen, director of Maningrida Arts and Culture, creative home to John Mawurndjul. In fact...
...arrivals, only the restaurant Canteen might appeal to both the bohemian crowd and financial folk. "Is this a chain?" asked my Friday lunch companion. Not yet, but it's easy to imagine blond wood and tweedy green-upholstered clones being assembled out of flat packs across the land. Canteen offers freshly executed traditional British fare?macaroni and cheese, meat pies and all-day breakfasts?served with a mission statement that boasts of the kitchen's organic and local sourcing. There is a Fast Service menu for those who can only flee their desk for an hour, but we chose comfort...