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...creates a tension." Legofesto says she decided to recreate images of torture and violence out of LEGOs due to the reluctance of media organizations to publish enough actual, real-life images of what she views as criminal acts. The images range from the death of a protester at the recent G-20 meeting in London to the alleged rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl...
...Several agencies have been struggling to free themselves of bureaucratic restraints, like filtering software that bars employees from accessing social networks from work computers. In recent months, both the Department of Energy and the Department of Housing and Urban Development have opened up employee access to social-networking tools. The Defense Department has also been going online, with a new Air Force Twitter page and a Facebook page for General Ray Odierno, the U.S. commander of multinational forces in Iraq...
...formula is working. Offering tickets from as low as $15, the ENO balances popular appeal with innovation. It is best known for singing foreign operas in English and setting classics in the more recent past - last season saw Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème staged in the fragile interwar period of 1930s Paris. But while other European opera houses experiment with extreme directorial conceits - Germany's Komische Oper recently performed Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio in an S&M torture chamber - the ENO has found a way to make old favorites feel revitalized rather than remade. "We have...
...also managed the seemingly impossible by drawing in new audience members with contemporary operatic work. Around 70% of the 15,000 people who attended a recent run of the contemporary American composer John Adams' Doctor Atomic had not been to the ENO before, a startlingly high figure given that the opera borders on atonality for much of the first half. When the ENO promoted Leos Janacek's 20th century masterpiece Jenufa with a money-back guarantee for first-time ticket buyers, it didn't end up refunding a single ticket...
...Youth Around the Globe: "Being a bully or being bullied is not uncommon. Around one in 10 OECD children is a recent bullying victim... Greece and Austria have the most bullies, whereas Sweden, the Czech Republic and Iceland have the least. Perpetrators and victims of bullying are more likely to be boys than girls. Only in Hungary and Greece are girls victims of bullying more often than, or equal to, boys. There are no countries with more female than male perpetrators. ... Underage drinking is a big problem in the United Kingdom. Although rates have fallen since 2001/2002, in 2005/2006...