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...little inconvenient, then, that Gonzalez-Foerster says she's never thought of herself as a French artist at all. But perhaps that is only fitting. The organizers may have chosen his name as a symbol for French artistic innovation, but they neglect to point out that Marcel Duchamp died an American...
...ease their integration into society, two family-type homes for children with severe handicaps and one mother-and-child unit. But with the government, local authorities and foreign humanitarian organizations all moving in the same direction, an air of hope hangs over a system that was once a worldwide symbol of shame. That optimism is shared by Nina at Casa Austria. "I want to be big when I grow up," she burbles, before scurrying off to play with some puppies in the backyard...
Instead of throwing that aluminum beer can in the bin, you might consider wearing it. Or so suggest the curators of "The Adventures of Aluminium, Jewellery to Jets," at London's Design Museum through Jan. 19, which polishes up the familiar stuff. Today a symbol of our throwaway culture, aluminum was not so long ago a precious metal. When a French scientist first extracted tiny pieces of it in 1845, the earth's most abundant metal was as valuable as gold and used in jewelry and precious objects. But only 10 years later, a new chemical extraction process made aluminum...
...fields sit a direct tanker trip across the Atlantic from Europe or America's east coast, with no pesky Suez Canal or Gulf to navigate. The Bali blast is a reminder that no place is safe from terror, and recent fighting in Ivory Coast is a symbol of West Africa's volatility, but oilmen remain bullish in part because oil production is offshore and thus rarely disturbed by onshore unrest. "West Africa may not be particularly stable but it is not as dangerous as the Middle East," says George Ayittey, head of the African Oil Policy Initiative Group, a division...