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...support," complains sculptor Iriantine Karnaya. "There is no shortage of creativity in this country but we need the means and resources to develop it." One of those resources would be a national museum of contemporary art, which Indonesia currently lacks, forcing private collectors to fill the void. Travel-industry magnate Rudy Akili recently built the three-story Akili Museum in West Jakarta to house his own vast collection of Indonesian masters. "I wanted to make my collection visible to the public," says Akili. "But there are no appropriate places to make donations so I decided to build my own museum...
...even the word--of an engine that accelerates by barely 15 m.p.h. (24 km/h) per day, or zero to 60 in more than half a week. Yet the places the ship is going--and the remarkable way it will get there--could open an entire new era in space travel...
...North Korea from retribution.) Chongyron - which functions as North Korea's de-facto diplomatic voice in Japan - took away his North Korean passport, and he hasn't been back to Pyongyang. Permitted to take Korean or Japanese nationality, last year Lee took South Korean citizenship in order to travel abroad...
...Making a mark in the global economy, however, means becoming a global citizen. "How well do you travel?" Immelt asked. It's a lesson that U.S. workers, too, are starting to learn. Satish Bhat, program manager of Microsoft's development center in Hyderabad, says he's been taking on not just Indians who want to move home, but also "diversity hires" - Americans who want to move to India. "That's where the action is," Bhat says...
...Even more pertinent was the criticism that the giant carbon footprint of an event that involved jetting pop stars and their entourages around the globe, and encouraging hundreds of thousands of fans to travel to concert sites, was inherently at odds with Live Earth's energy-conservation message. Around half the carbon footprint in any given show usually comes from the audience traveling to the concert, and though Live Earth promised to offset those emissions, it wasn't yet clear how - not to mention that offsets are inherently dicey. The Tokyo show drew much of its electricity from an existing...