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...garden could contain, produced an effect that Takubo found almost hypnotic. He was similarly captivated by the fact that many of the flowers had some petals that were browning at the edge, or had leaves that had been ravaged by insects, while other petals or leaves on the same plant were pristine in their perfection?another phenomenon, he reasoned, that would rarely occur in nature. It was this combination of the hyperreal and the unreal, he says, that "taught me art is about possibility, about creating something from nothing, even things that don't really exist." Inspired, Takubo went...
...foreign oil workers to leave. Grower Pains PERU Riot police stormed an Inca temple in the southeastern city of Cuzco to free 19 foreign tourists briefly held by coca farmers protesting the government's U.S.-sponsored efforts to eradicate their crop. The increasingly restive coca growers say the plant is a part of Andean culture and their livelihoods depend on it; officials say it is mostly used to produce cocaine...
...sketch pad with a pen and [would] plant myself somewhere and draw...It would usually take me an hour give and take to do each one,” she said...
...three years, undercover cop Yan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) has worked for Mob lord Sam (Eric Tsang). Sam's plant in the Hong Kong Triad Police Bureau is Ming (Andy Lau), whose commander, Wong (Anthony Wong), has been after Sam for most of his career. When the cops try to bust one of Sam's drug deals, both sides realize they are internally compromised. Yan and Ming must walk a fine line, getting information to their true bosses while hiding their own identities from their duped colleagues. Sometimes the only way to achieve that is by killing an ally...
...mushroom cloud that was spotted about 60 miles to the west of the dam, near the town of Woltanri? The area doesn't have a river worth damming, former residents say, but it does have a missile base, as well as, according to a frequent visitor, a munitions plant. An accidental explosion of rocket propellant--possibly a missile launch gone awry--could have caused the mushroom cloud, analysts say. Another possibility: Pyongyang blew up something to keep the world guessing about its nuclear intentions--a tactic the regime has used in the past...