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...education in general. Concludes Harvard's Professor Porter: "Both will be good value over the next two to three years, but it is still very much in doubt that they will become advanced economies." To achieve that exalted status will take more than flying Indian chefs into Swiss alpine resorts...
...from basketball sneakers, as well as a sculpture that transforms cheap plastic chairs into a whale skeleton. Jungen, who was raised on Dane-zaa Indian land north of the remote logging town of Fort St. John, British Columbia, and moved to Vancouver as a teenager, is of mixed Indian-Swiss parentage. His origins inform his best-known work, Prototypes for New Understanding, above, a series that features Northwest Coast Indian masks painstakingly reassembled from unstitched Nike Air Jordans...
...constructed from basketball sneakers, as well as a sculpture that transforms cheap plastic chairs into a whale skeleton. Jungen, who was raised on Danezaa Indian land north of the remote logging town of Fort St. John, British Columbia, and moved to Vancouver as a teenager, is of mixed Indian-Swiss parentage. His origins inform his best-known work, Prototypes for New Understanding, a series that features Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting...
...already relies on nuclear energy for more than 75% of its electricity, President Jacques Chirac announced plans to develop a new generation of reactors. In Ukraine itself, critics worried about the likelihood of big price rises in the future. And the pivotal role in the deal given to a Swiss-based intermediary company partly owned by unnamed Ukrainian investors increased concerns for some. "What has happened is a major scam," Yuliya Tymoshenko, the former Ukraine Premier who is expected to do well in parliamentary elections in March, told Time. The Russian bullying tactic may have lasted only a few days...
Chiron's incompletely recovered operations contributed to a fifth consecutive year of initial vaccine shortages this flu season. But its largest shareholder, Swiss drug firm Novartis, did not dump its stake in the company. Quite the opposite. Novartis CEO Daniel Vasella decided to buy for $5.1 billion the 58% of Chiron that Novartis does not own, and the Federal Trade Commission approved the deal last month. But the California hedge fund ValuAct, which owns 5% of Chiron, has announced that it intends to vote against the deal, calling Novartis' $45 per share offer "tantamount to stealing the company." Vasella, however...