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...collection of Andersen's personal belongings, manuscripts, drawings and paper cutouts in an enormous book-shaped building designed especially for the bicentennial. tel: (45-70) 23 55 55; www.unitedexhibits. com. There will be some 2,000 other events around the world this year, from an opera based on The Tinderbox in Japan to Estonian national TV and radio programs. For more on these and other Andersen-related activities, check out www.hca2005.com...
...collection of Andersen's personal belongings, manuscripts, drawings and paper cutouts in an enormous book-shaped building designed especially for the bicentennial. tel: (45-70) 23 55 55; www.unitedexhibits. com. There will be some 2,000 other events around the world this year, from an opera based on The Tinderbox in Japan to Estonian national TV and radio programs. For more on these and other Andersen-related activities, check out www.hca2005.com...
...adds, it may all be for nothing, and the WHO must keep the pressure on. In the past 18 months, 77 new cases have appeared in nine African countries that were previously polio free. Another has just surfaced in Darfur, Sudan, bordering Chad, where refugee camps are a tinderbox of cramped quarters and unclean water. The world, says Aylward, is like a forest, and one polio case can touch off a wildfire that may take years to put out. "We have gone several seasons without [a forest fire]," he says, "and the brush has gotten dryer and dryer. One spark...
Descending en masse from their hamlet, the Cornellians transform the tranquil arena into an emotional tinderbox. They slip fish—hidden underneath their clothes—past security guards. When Cornell scores, the fans hoist the putrid trout onto the playing surface, then serenade the Crimson faithful with a rendition of “Far Above Cayuga’s Waters...
Chen has added fuel to this tinderbox by including a referendum with the election. He is asking voters to sanction a military buildup in response to China's deployment of missiles across the Taiwanese Strait. He has also said that if he wins, he will revise Taiwan's constitution, a step that Beijing fears could move Taiwan closer to formal independence. That is why Washington, seeking to cultivate relations with China, has taken a dim view of Chen's initiatives. President Bush warned him in December not to "make decisions unilaterally to change the status quo," implying that he should...