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...urban setting,” Assistant Director Kathleen Frith says in the video. Frith and the center’s director, 1985 Nobel Peace Prize winner Eric Chivian, who have been working on the proposal, declined to comment yesterday. But though the seeds for the farm have been sown, EAC Chair Spring Greeney ’09, who e-mailed the initial link to the poll, acknowledged that it was still unclear whether undergraduates would be able to reap the benefits. “The farm project, as far as I understand it, is still really, really speculative...
...property near Forbes in central western New South Wales, Stewart left school to study social work in Sydney, where he discovered ballet at the relatively late age of 19. His professional trajectory began with two years at the Australian Ballet School, but the seeds had been sown back on the family farm. "Even before I started dancing," he recalls, "I used to listen to music and imagine bodies flying through space." For how much longer at ADT, one can only surmise. Stewart was recently mentioned as a possible successor to Graeme Murphy at the Sydney Dance Company, but with...
...mile elevated railway track that served for decades as a way to bring freight into lower Manhattan. By 1980 the trains had stopped running and the tracks were sliding into decades of spectacular decay that was also a kind of blossoming. Nature re-established itself. Saplings and wind-sown grasses sprouted in rail beds where the homeless built campfires at night. Whole stretches made you think of the Appian Way after the fall of the Roman Empire, the almost phosphorescent decrepitude of a vanished civilization made even stranger by the fact that an intact, modern city was churning away...
...were left homeless. Says parliamentarian Saad Hariri, son of the slain former Prime Minister: "When it starts raining and getting cold, people will realize what a huge mistake it was for Hizballah to start this war." What's more, the olive groves and hills of southern Lebanon are sown with more than 1 million bomblets from Israeli cluster bombs, say U.N. experts, making it hazardous if not lethal to wander into these areas...
...Although the current scramble for Asian clients is driven by the region's growing wealth, the seeds of the boom were sown not by prosperity but by adversity. In the past, Asians have tended to manage their money without professional help, and to stash a lot of it conservatively in cash, savings deposits and real estate. "The Asian rich have had a high propensity to hold cash," says Scott of BCG. "That was why private banking didn't take off for a long time in Asia." But several economic shocks?including the tech-stock crash of 2000 and the 9/11...