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...soup. Scrounging together bits of English, Hebrew, and Italian, I attempted to explain my intrusion. I was in my third week in Rome and the winding, cobblestone streets had left me lost and alone. I had spotted a few men sporting yarmulkes—traditional Jewish skullcaps—near the metro stop. I had explained about Chabad, about Rabbi Hazan, and about Rosh Hashanah dinner.“È niente. We will take you there,“ one said. Now I stood on Rabbi Hazan’s doorstep. The woman glanced at her full table, each...
...village, to repair a mosque, even to get married. Rohingya frequently fall victim to forced-labor drives by the military. The Burmese government, say Rohingya rights-groups, sees them as interlopers in the predominantly Buddhist land. Illiteracy rates in North Rakhine state, where the Rohingya are a majority, run near 80%, and malnutrition at 60%. (See pictures of the devastation of Burma after the huge 2008 cyclone...
...Studio. For the long, hard work of painting in egg tempera, a technique that has not been in common practice since the quattrocentro, Wyeth will retreat to his studio near the old family home where he was brought up. He hates to be watched in his studio-except by dogs and kids. The William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum in Rockland, Me., has recently bought an essay by Troy Kaichen, a literate Gushing boy, who knows Wyeth well. It describes Wyeth at work...
...dynasty was founded when Newell Converse Wyeth went in 1903 from Massachusetts to Wilmington, Del., to study painting with the scholarly illustrator Howard Pyle. Often Pyle and his favorite pupil would journey the twelve miles out of Wilmington to Chadds Ford to paint along the banks of the Brandywine near the old gristmill. Within three years, N.C. had married, and soon after put down roots in the Pennsylvania hills...
...Commercial airports like New York City's J.F.K., meanwhile, have gotten just as creative: hawks and falcons, which fly solo and are therefore less dangerous, are released near runways to scare away flocks of seagulls and geese. Other airports hunt and destroy birds' nests and eggs...