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...harborside MCA, they gave it the thumbs-down. European architects Sauerbruch Hutton had won an international design competition to redevelop the former Maritime Services building (one scheme involved a "lightbox" over the existing art deco edifice; another had it demolished and replaced with what detractors likened to a petrol station). But public support waned, and the plan was eventually scrapped. Instead, director Macgregor set about improving the existing building, turning around the museum's deficit, and widening its community outreach; for the first time this year, "Primavera" will tour the country when its Sydney season ends in November. "My philosophy...
...billion bid for PetroKazakhstan, a Canadian-owned firm with vast oil and gas reserves in the former Soviet republic. China certainly needs the go juice. Motorists lined up for hours at filling stations in the country's southern province of Guangdong two weeks ago, waiting to fill tanks with petrol that was suddenly in short supply. The scenes of idle gas pumps and irate drivers, which evoked memories of oil shocks of the 1970s, were the result of weather-related supply disruptions, according to the government. The fuel flow was quickly restored, but no one is willing to predict...
...Arroyo has seen her popularity plummet since being elected President last May, largely because of unpopular economic moves like new taxes intended to combat the Philippines' budget deficit and a hike in electricity and petrol prices to offset rising oil costs, which have prompted numerous street protests. "These protests and bishops worry me no end," says Jose Ma. Rufino, national executive director of Arroyo's Lakas Party. "It's a new phenomenon." Unfortunately, coup tremors in the Philippines are anything...
...collection, mixing exhibits that tell bits of the story so far. There are galleries devoted to indigenous peoples, British settlement, immigration, and 1960s suburbia - where you will find a display recreating the kitchen-and-backyard idyll that nurtured the baby boomers. Looming large in this time capsule is a petrol-powered, rotary-engine Victa lawnmower and, tucked inside a cupboard, a Sunbeam Mixmaster. The two products speak of a time of rising prosperity in which Australians aspired to a house on a quarter-acre block, children played in the backyard after school, and people did their own chores, like mowing...
...machinery as if she were doing battle. In a "grim, rancorous atmosphere," she and her co-workers sort, stack and pack about 47,000 dozen eggs a day, in busy periods working 10 hours a day, six days a week. By the time she has paid for rent, food, petrol and newspapers, she has $A7 left for the week...