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...balloons filled with nothing but gas. That has spawned a host of wild rumors, often spread in text messages?"GMA will declare martial law on or before June 21 ... Stock up on water and groceries"?and a confusion that could eventually prove truly dangerous. The spurious warnings that the sky is falling mask the fact that Arroyo does indeed have lots of enemies. The public now has access to a tape-recorded telephone conversation of Arroyo allegedly discussing the manipulation of votes with an election-commission official after last year's presidential poll. If authentic, it would be a grave...
...rare success story in the Philippines. "It's a sunrise industry," Arroyo told me, delighted by the chance to discuss a positive trend. "Four years ago, it was just beginning here. Today, it's employing about 70,000 young people and hiring thousands more each month. I think the sky is the limit...
...Midwestern Environmentalist Ross Sublett, an official with the Nature Conservancy, has seen the cranes many times, but at day's end, peering through the torn burlap curtain of a small wooden blind, he marvels anew at the squadrons of cranes landing in the Platte like parachutists dropping from the sky. Dark descends, and a full moon magically rises, throwing a broad moon-beam across both river and cranes. "What's the fascination?" Sublett murmurs. With the cries of the cranes filling the air, he answers his own question. "I guess it's that they've been coming here for millenniums...
...early watercolors--in particular, the paintings of fisherfolk he did during a 20-month stay in the northern English coastal village of Cullercoats in 1881-82. Those robust girls, simple, natural, windbeaten and enduring, planted in big boots with arms akimbo against the elemental planes of sea, rock and sky, are also images of a kind of moralizing earnestness that was common in French salon art a century ago. Idealizations of the peasant, reflecting an anxiety that folk culture was being annihilated by the gravitational field of the city, were the stock of dozens of painters like Jules Breton, Jules...
...really, up on the Colorado Plateau, insight of the Jemez and the Nacimiento ranges of the Rockies. This time of year the country is golden with rabbit weed and chamiza (when the Spaniards first crossed these parts, they called it tierra amarilla, or yellow land), and the deep blue sky above it has no ceiling. In the first issue of the Cuba News--"the first edition of the first newspaper ever printed in this area"--an editorial declared that "we believe by letting the outside world know what is in 'them thar hills' that interest in this corner...