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...curator can appreciate. "These people combine two traits," he says. "They're all intensely visual. They just can't see - and that expresses itself in a whole variety of ways. The other one is they're furiously independent and determined. This is a group that does not say 'quit' in any way." Or as Weston says, "I guess it's God?s little joke, having someone who is legally blind do so well in the visual arts...
While some teams have cheered the idea, others have blown a gasket. Ferrari, the sport's oldest and most illustrious team, this week threatened to quit Formula One unless the plans were parked. On Friday, Team Ferrari filed an injunction in a French court to block the cap. Rivals Renault, Toyota, Red Bull and Torro Rosso all issued similar warnings. "If the regulations for 2010 will not change," read a Ferrari statement, "then Ferrari does not intend to enter cars in the next Formula One world championship." (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...health problem. Along with other measures to revamp our nation’s healthcare system, Congress is planning to offer tax-credits and other subsidies to employers who reward their employees for healthy behavior. Lawmakers want to make it easier for businesses to encourage their employees to quit smoking, head to the gym, keep a better diet, and lose weight, a plan which does not seem to have any detriments. Such measures by Congress will benefit all Americans, helping people to become happier and healthier...
...while the LSE predicts the market for new listings will recover next year, expect "a wholesale change in the way AIM looks," says Cowie. U.K.-based firms have quit the market at more than twice the rate of overseas businesses in the last 18 months, he says, and the dwindling presence of smaller companies means the firms that remain will be bigger, forcing up the exchange's average market cap. Investors already look set to buy in. The AIM index is still down year-on-year but it's up 30% so far this year, far more than its bigger...
...rights protected by the Chinese constitution, including the right to be informed, the right to supervise and other human rights." It's a sentiment that Ai himself echoes when he talks about what might happen in the coming years in China. "I have an illusion that maybe I'll quit all my art and other things and just build a huge office that can contain 5,000 people doing nothing but investigations," he says. "We'll have to clean out all the garbage to have a cleaner world...