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...soldiers invade the camp four to five nights a week.” The 25,000 residents of Balata, a community established nearly 60 years ago, do not live in the desolate “camp” implied by the children. In actuality, they live in concrete and stone houses, and there are shops, schools, and many other amenities which make this area a town. Even Green Left—Australia’s “leading radical newspaper”—reports that prior to 2006, the Israeli army had not entered the town since...
...Yorkshire farm was where, from the age of 13, British artist Andy Goldsworthy first learned his trade: how to use a shovel, skin a hare, build a dry-stone wall. It's also where he saw a painting in the lines of a plow on the land, a sculpture in a haystack, and where he realized that the idyllic landscape of rural England is one fashioned by sweat and privilege and kept green by death and dung. So, even if over the last 25 years Goldsworthy, now 50, has traveled far from home (and his fame has spread even further...
...gardens and farmland, much of it a former lordly estate, the park boasts several galleries and a stunning outdoor collection of modern sculpture, including some fine Barbara Hepworths and Henry Moores. It's also home to 137 sheep, for whom Goldsworthy has built a sheepfold contain-ing a massive stone slab on which human visitors can lie to create "rain shadows." Else-where on the estate he has raised a series of dry-stone wall enclosures where giant fallen oaks hang. Paradoxically, for all the open air, it's Goldsworthy's new indoor works that are the fresher. "A building...
...more pampering, the Kasbah recently opened a cozy three-guest-room lodge, the first of its kind in the park, where host Omar welcomes hikers with a hearty handshake and a basin of rose water. A simple refuge overlooking a traditional village of flat-topped mud and stone houses, it was a perfect overnight stop on a two-day hike into and out of the Azzaden Valley, where the bracing Atlas air felt like Drano on our clogged city lungs...
Harper hall is nothing special, a four-story stone dorm on the south side of the Virginia Tech campus, small by comparison to its neighbors on the outside and on the inside today, quiet - just the way Cho Seung-hui had liked things...