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...sounds like this is a turning point in your life, vis-à-vis children. What a great way to go into your second childhood. Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look. I'm overexaggerated and my voice is small and my name is Dolly and I'm kind of like a Mother Goose character. So I think that it's going to be a fun thing...
...just the galleries that are finding a steady market in India. The auxiliary professions - everything from archivists, curators and critics to conservators and technicians for lighting and hanging - are also seeing growth. "At one point you couldn't find people who were doing restoration," says Priya Paul, who buys art both for herself and for her family's chain of boutique hotels. These days, she and some other collectors are allowing their collections to be used to help people who would otherwise have to seek training abroad. Paul recently worked with the staff of digital archive Tasveer Ghar...
Most of my neighbors are from cities in Vietnam, where people are actively urban farming. For them it's pretty normal, though at one point I had too many chickens and they sort of overran the neighborhood. A lot of the neighborhood kids are pretty excited to see farm animals, something they would never normally get to do. (Read "Urban Farming...
...video posted the night before the crackdown is of a woman reading a poem about Iranians standing up to change their country, afraid but determined to move into the morning, even if it is to face forces that would destroy them. The voice is sad and at one point almost breaks into a sob, and in the backdrop of the Tehran night can be faintly heard protest chants: "Allahu-Akbar, Allahu-Akbar." God is Great, God is Great. A Palestinian friend of mine remarked that those words would once have struck fear into the hearts of Americans. Now they inspire...
...These findings, says Mbuyiselo Botha, a senior program advisor at Sonke Gender Justice, an advocacy group for abused women, "highlight the lack of remorse among men in our country, and also the attitude that women remain fair game for us." Men, says Botha, "continue to abuse even to the point of getting away with murder...