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...news article "Worker Injured in Fogg Construction" incorrectly stated that the worker injured was with the Swedish construction firm Skanska, based on information from Andrew B. McCabe, the president of Joseph P. McCabe Inc., another construction firm working with Harvard. In fact, the worker injured was working for Preservation Timber Framing, Inc., according to University spokeswoman Lauren Marshall...
...property lies on Pulau Langkawi, the largest of the islands. Like McMurtrie's Bon Ton resort next door, Temple Tree is a collection of antique timber houses from all over the country, and its 2.5-acre (1 hectare) compound looks somewhat like a museum of traditional Malaysian architecture. These nine houses, mostly derelict and abandoned when McMurtrie saved them, have been painstakingly disassembled, moved and reassembled in what was once a field thick with reeds. Original features have been lovingly restored. (See 10 things to do in Singapore...
...Mosquito Coast In return for oil, natural gas, timber, hydropower, gemstones, cash crops and a periodic table's worth of minerals, countries like China, India, Thailand, Malaysia and South Korea are propping up - and massively enriching - Burma's top brass. In the first nine months of 2008, foreign investment in Burma almost doubled year on year to nearly $1 billion, according to government figures that don't even take into account significant underground economic activity. Burma today is estimated to produce 90% of the world's rubies by value, 80% of its teak, and is home to one of Asia...
...Most Kachin are Christian, and they believe their faith makes them particularly vulnerable to persecution by the exclusively Buddhist junta. In a complicated arrangement, the KIO controls some territory on Kachin's border with China. Chinese trucks that rumble through KIO turf pay taxes on the jade, gold and timber they're carrying, and KIO officials say the Chinese generally pay up, lest instability infect the area. "China wants Burma as a buffer state," says Gun Maw. "It wants Burma to be secure - so China will be secure...
...informs her interlocutor that “Your heart is as large as an anthill in Switzerland”—presumably, the heart in question is non-existent. Elsewhere, the poet takes us to Lapland, treads on Persian rugs, compares the heart to a “timber mansion on the Bosporus” and watches deer in Auvers while musing about Cezanne’s apples—tall traveling orders for such a brief collection. Yet this preponderance of bizarre images and places is compounded by Nilsson’s decision to emphasize her most unusual...