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...mission of RA is reclaiming a site in order to tell its story is . Typically working on neglected or endangered land, RA installs public artwork that call attention to the urban landscape and how city-dwellers shape, inhabit, neglect or enhance it. The group formed in 1990 and has built 12 major projects in the area from the Muddy River, to Government Center Plaza to Somerville’s Mystic River shoreline. “It’s a playground for artists to make statements without worrying about selling pieces. It’s about ideas...
...Western nations are eager to open their war chests to fight international terrorism, but the test of how willing they are to help the inevitable victims from the fallout of this battle is just beginning. After years of donor neglect of Afghanistan?caused, in part, by the Taliban's oppressive treatment of women?the UNHCR has launched an appeal for nearly $600 million in emergency refugee aid. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is chipping in $40 million for the Afghans and an additional $17.6 million for Pakistanis living in the impoverished border region. Germany quickly followed suit with a pledge...
...core of Pakistan's predicament is economic. Years of neglect by corrupt politicians have dragged 30% of the population below the poverty line--nearly double the level of the past decade--and created an abiding dissatisfaction with democracy, perfect conditions to breed extremism. With a takeover by the fundamentalists, as one liberal Pakistani remarked, "We'll become another Afghanistan--but with electricity." And nukes...
...core of Pakistan's predicament is economic. Years of neglect by corrupt politicians have dragged 30% of the population below the poverty line?nearly double the level of the past decade?and created an abiding dissatisfaction with democracy, perfect conditions to breed extremism. With a takeover by the fundamentalists, as one liberal Pakistani remarked, "We'll become another Afghanistan?but with electricity." And nukes...
...couples. Last month in Germany, a new law regulating the marriage of gay and lesbian couples took effect guaranteeing them the same rights as heterosexuals in such matters as inheritance and health insurance. But there's still a long way to go: critics say many of the new laws neglect to give gay couples the same rights as their straight counterparts when it comes to issues like adoption. And in other parts of Europe there's no protection at all. Although the registration of so-called domestic unions is a hot political topic in Italy, for example, homosexual unions there...