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Piano has placed floor-to-ceiling glass walls at the north and south ends of his building, which introduce light directly into some of the galleries through a scrim that can be raised on overcast days. The window walls also admit some powerful views of Millennium Park, including a huge vista of the billowing steel panels of Frank Gehry's wonderful Pritzker band shell, which comes at you like a breaker on the beach at Santa Monica...
...only thing that will get us out of this mess is to pull together - legal and illegal, American and non-American. This is a global problem, and massive deportation will only make things worse. Where do you think these deported immigrants will find jobs? Maybe with the drug gangs south of the border? Or perhaps with the pirates off the coast of Somalia? Let's not forget that a newly recruited pirate, extremist or mercenary for a drug cartel is much worse than an honest, hardworking immigrant looking for a better life. Pablo Cortes, INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA...
...pirates, or the current ludicrous situation will become a complete farce. As it stands, the pirates stand to gain huge amounts of money in ransom payments, but there is very little downside to their operations, so the piracy is only going to spread. Vincent Bristow, KNYSNA, SOUTH AFRICA...
Szabados is quick to acknowledge, however, that not all the money has been well spent. There was the housing development built in a hurry in a wooded area south of town that now stands largely empty. "If we'd thought about it properly, we wouldn't have done it," she admits. Then there are the government-sponsored job-creation programs that failed to live up to their name, and the startups that quickly shut down again because they depended more on government subsidies than on a smart business plan. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
AGRA, for its part, says it has learned the lessons of Asia's experience. Africa's farmlands are divided into small, impoverished plots and scattered across a diverse ecological landscape. What works just south of the Sahara is likely to be very different from what would be successful in the Ethiopian highlands or the Congolese tropics. Rather than try to impose a transition to large-scale, industrialized agriculture, AGRA is providing small-scale farmers with a variety of products for use in traditional planting. The idea, says Joe DeVries, director of AGRA's seed program, isn't to supplant existing...