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...screening include Safi, La Petite M?re, directed by Burkina Faso's Raso Ganemtore, in which an 8-year-old rescues her newborn brother from infanticide and escapes to the city, and Petite Lumi?re by Senegalese director Alain Gomis, about a child's attempts to understand the world ("When I shut my eyes, are people still there?"). The festival will open with Anita Roddick: Mrs. Body Shop, a documentary by German filmmaker Thomas Weidenbach that focuses on Roddick's work in Ghana to establish a women's shea butter co-operative. Says Yidana Ibrahim, a Ghanaian filmmaker whose documentary on water...
...throw a hissy fit and race to protect their vital national yogurt industry, as they did last year, or when pundits pretend it matters which European Union country owns what gas utility. But a trade war between the U.S. and China?with each side taking punitive, protectionist steps to shut out the other's products, services and investments?poses a real danger to the world's biggest economy (the U.S.) and the world's fastest-growing economy (China). Together, the two countries have accounted for nearly half of total global economic growth since 2002. China...
...Webb's excavation team reflects thawing relations with the scientific world. After the discoveries of Mungo Lady and Mungo Man, whose ages are still fiercely debated, scientists flocked to the area. But in the 1980s, dismayed that artefacts and remains were being taken to museums and universities elsewhere, elders shut down research on human burials. For many years, archaeological study of the Willandra languished. The ban remains in force, but elders say that could change. "The importance of what this landscape holds to the world is very much in our minds," says Mary Pappin Sr. "But so is making sure...
...half minutes later, however, Dartmouth scored its only goal of the night, as Nick Johnson one-timed a cross-crease feed past Daigneau at the left post. But that was the only blemish on Harvard’s score sheet, as Daigneau and backup Justin Tobe combined to shut out the potent Big Green offense for the rest of the period. The Crimson’s attack, however, did not let up, tallying three more goals as the Cornell fans waiting for the second semifinal started chanting, “Goal inflation.” For Dartmouth...
...worker who smelled the snow-covered oil early on the morning of March 2, has triggered a massive cleanup in dangerous, subzero weather, and has cut North Slope oil production by 12%, or nearly 100,000 barrels a day, because the leaky pipeline and more than 200 wells were shut down. The reduced production could last weeks longer...