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...Hardin, Montana. Two years ago, the town (pop. 3,600) celebrated the completion of the state-of-the-art private jail capable of holding 464 inmates. Convinced that it would provide steady employment for over 100 locals, as well as accompanying economic benefits, the residents financed it through the sale of revenue bonds and turned it over to a for-profit prison-management corporation. On a 40-acre field at the edge of town where pronghorn antelope once grazed, they built it. But nobody came...
Conceived in the heady heyday of the Belle Epoque, London department store Selfridges has yet to reinvent itself for the age of austerity. But there's one commodity on sale between the crystal decanters and bone china that perfectly reflects the preoccupations of the times. For just $70, a concession called Psychic Sisters retails peace of mind by the half-hour...
...program for the show will include short biographies of all artists, whose backgrounds range from artists who grew up with painters in the family to varsity athletes and biology students. One graduate student in the show spent time in Nepal and, consequently, all the profits resulting from the sale of his artwork are going to a charity for Nepalese orphans...
...Student Art Show not only provides a forum for the sale of student art, but also a way in which those who want to become involved with the world of curating can gain experience. The show—which was entirely student run—gave organizers the opportunity to make curatorial decisions...
...South Wales. Non-native herd animals replaced the nomadic Skippy as the continent's meat source of choice. Australia began exporting kangaroo in 1959, and many an Aussie dog has feasted on it for decades. But it wasn't until the 1990s that most Australian states legalized the domestic sale of kangaroo as people food. John Kelly, executive director of the Kangaroo Industry Association of Australia (KIAA), blames the British palate. "If the French had gotten here first, the kangaroo would have been our national dish," he says. "Instead, we got meat and three...