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...anyone handicapping this one, Santander City might supply another clue. There among the modern brick buildings are rows of olive trees Botín had brought in, their trunks gnarled and twisted. You won't find one under 1,000 years old. Tradition still counts for a lot here...
...title of your Dec. 14 issue, "It's His War Now," demonstrates a problem with modern media. While our young men and women are suffering physical and emotional calamities overseas, the talking heads and media remain obsessed with declaring winners. We are a nation at war, and this war, like all others, does not belong to one man. Mike Keller, TAMPA...
...speed at which contemporary Philippine art has swept across the Asian art world over the past year has outstripped popular knowledge of its fundamentals. What are the enduring influences on the art of this culturally complex country? What are the concerns of its pre-eminent modern artists and how have they arisen? To situate current market excitement within a wider historical framework, the Singapore Art Museum has mediated rivalries between secretive Philippine collectors, and dug into its own archives, to put together a show of 70 rarely seen works spanning more than a century of Philippine art. It is, experts...
...pace with a shifting climate. "In general," says Field, "we don't have very good understanding of the mechanisms that allow plants to move around on the landscape." Current estimates, he says, are based largely on studies of ancient ecologies. "But our models are mostly not validated for the modern, human-dominated environment...
...indigenous appeal as a domestic company to surge past Google. Baidu was the first choice for 77% of Chinese Internet users, compared to 13% for Google, according to a September 2009 survey by the state-run China Internet Network Information Center. (See pictures of the making of modern China...