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...terms of the livelihood and self-esteem of remote communities-market leaders went into crisis mode. In April, Australia's Arts Minister Rod Kemp announced a crackdown on exploitation in the industry, hinting at a parliamentary inquiry in the coming months. The Australia Council's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board launched a $A3 million scheme to help combat the problem, including a new code of conduct for dealers and their customers. "The time is right to get it right," says the board's chair Chris Sarra. "It's not only Aboriginal artists benefiting from the industry...
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...gentle folk, and they hunted from the ice edge, harpooning seals and walruses with tools made of bone and ivory. When a slight warming period hit about 1,000 years ago, the ice receded. Bowhead whales moved in from Alaskan waters, followed by seafaring hunters from the Bering Strait. With their boats, those hunters, the forebears of Canadian Inuit, eventually spread east to Greenland. For reasons still not clear, the Dorset disappeared. As with most environmental changes, the warming of northern Canada set in motion a series of complex, interrelated events that produced winners and losers...
...undersea terrain with sonar and analyzing the geopolitical implications of finding the long-sought Arctic Grail. Their proposals should help the government deal with an international legal dispute already under way: whether the Northwest Passage is within Canadian waters, subject to domestic security and environmental regulation, or an international strait. "Our success will not necessarily be measured by the quality of science, but also in the policy," says ArcticNet executive director Martin Fortier (no relation to Louis...
...declare war on Iran, a dwindling "coalition of the willing" might eventually become a "coalition of the billing," making opportunistic demands on the U.S. More important, oil prices may hit $100 or more per barrel if Iran embargoes its oil exports or bottles up oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation. And the U.S.'s huge budget deficit, compounded by war, inflation and soaring oil prices, would make a nasty dent in George W. Bush's image in his own country. Kangayam R. Narasimhan Chennai, India...