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Almost ten years to the day after he first set about trying to solve the Northern Ireland conflict, British Prime Minister Tony Blair leaned forward in his gallery seat at the moment of truth: In the hushed, wood-panelled chamber of the region's Assembly, onetime enemies formally pledged to run the government together. It was a moment that secured Blair's best hope for a positive legacy, even as he entered the final days of his premiership still dogged by Iraq...
...take Ajit Singh, 43, a computer scientist who grew up in northern India and moved to the U.S., where he joined Siemens in 1989. There he worked closely with Kleinfeld and has been one of the people driving Siemens' development of medical scanners that use digital image processing for the early detection of disease. Singh explains that a doctor could take digital images of a beating heart and compare them with images of a healthy heart and determine if there is an anomaly, often long before symptoms of an impending heart attack appear. Last year he moved from San Francisco...
...face domestic political constraints on their ability to help stabilize Iraq. In Turkey, where the military last week threatened to intervene in a political crisis over the election of an Islamist president, a senior army official recently warned that the Turkish armed forces should intervene against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq. Although all of Iraq's neighbors except Kuwait opposed the invasion of Iraq, many are now deeply worried that growing American domestic opposition to the war will force a precipitous U.S. withdrawal that could exacerbate the chaos...
...very inspired by what I see around me,” he says. Then again, Collins has done more seeing in the past two decades than most people do in an entire lifetime. He has driven through all 48 continental U.S. states, explored Northern Iceland in blizzard conditions, toured medical clinics in El Salvador, led school children on a hiking trip in rural China, conducted religious studies onboard a ship in the Caribbean, and traveled to Baton Rouge only days after Hurricane Katrina to aid in relief efforts. With his bank of images and experiences rapidly expanding, Collins?...
...Proving his point, the good-humored artist was in Sydney last week to open his latest exhibition, which shows that there is indeed a world beyond art fairs and biennales. As his indonesian holden rider society T shirt indicated, Kesminas has been spending time with Australia's northern neighbors, and while on a residency at Yogyakarta's Indonesian Art Institute in 2005, the artist hooked up with some like-minded students to form the garage band Punkasila. Their name is a punk play on founding President Sukarno's five pillars of nationhood, Pancasila; just as playfully, the band like...