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...money is needed to rebuild homes and schools and to provide medical care for the sick and injured. The weather has been relatively dry so far. But with temperatures in areas above 1,500 m now dipping to -8?C, shelter is an immediate concern. There aren't enough tin sheets, a construction staple, to go around. At higher elevations, only about 10% of residents have them, says Sardar Rafiq of the U.K.-based NGO Islamic Relief. Many do have tents?the Pakistani government has distributed more than 245,000 of them?but they will be "useless," says Rafiq...
...Kong waterfront. Don't miss it, or the stunning fireworks display scheduled for Jan. 30 at Victoria Harbour - the pyrotechnics draw an audience of half a million to the city's shoreline. Less chaotic are the Chinese New Year Races, held at the Hong Kong Jockey Club's Sha Tin track on Jan. 31. Local punters say that a win on this day will bring betting luck all year round. But even if your horse doesn't come in, the trackside buzz and the roar of the crowd will be enough to get tails wagging. For more information, visit discoverhongkong.com...
...says, she wants to be as intimate with anyone who works on or reads one of her plays as she is with one of her lovers. She cites an epiphany-like experience she had years ago while reading Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” as the cause of this frankness. “I stopped in the middle of reading and thought, ‘Oh my God. I’m having a conversation with Tennessee Williams,’” she said. As last Thursday?...
...clearly not Kansas when Dorothy dons Balenciaga. Pride & Prejudice star KEIRA KNIGHTLEY and minimalist painter BRICE MARDEN are part of an Oz-themed pictorial in next month's Vogue. Annie Leibovitz also shot painters Jasper Johns and John Curren as the Cowardly Lion and the Tin Man. Aren't artists supposed to be prickly, reclusive and, you know, serious? Not when Annie's folks call. "They just told me to bring hats," says Marden, a friend of Leibovitz's. "It was easier than a Gap ad I did once...
...Buddhist presence in the College might look like.” Adam S. Lobel, a second year graduate student at the Divinity School and a member of HBC, said that the meeting’s purpose was to find out what students wanted the HBC to be for undergraduates. Tin-yun T. Ho ’07 suggested that the HBC host a weekly teaching series where local community leaders could come and speak about Buddhism. Other students suggested readings and meditation lessons so that newcomers could better understand the religion. Wagner said that the decision to open...