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...Upon moving to Jakarta at 14, she began collecting traditional fabrics, as well as picking up know-how from the artisans she bought them off. Not long after, Obin started designing patterns herself, and experimenting with techniques of producing batik, including the use of hand-woven silk instead of the usual cottons. When, at the age of 31, she finally opened a small outlet for her designs in central Jakarta, she became an immediate hit among the élite neighborhood's well-off shoppers. "Obin led a revolution in modernizing batik by translating traditional motifs into contemporary design," explains leading...
...albums into its existence, Dave Grohl's post-Nirvana band has evolved into a four-piece version of Silver Bullet Band-era Bob Seger. Like its predecessors, Echoes is predictably ghee-tar heavy, with lyrics focused on a core of universally agreed-upon values (authenticity, integrity; you know the drill). It's tuneful, stolid, competent--but also a little dull. Like a rock...
Curiously, as Ackroyd points out, Londoners today barely notice the Thames and, when they do, they instinctively experience it as more of a barrier and a frontier than a highway: "They pass over it hurriedly; they try not to walk beside it, and they rarely venture upon it." Aware or not, Londoners are heirs to a centuries-old, north-south crossflow of envy and disdain. In 1840 the journalist Charles Mackay disparaged south Londoners by writing that "the progress of civilisation does nothing for them ... a thousand years effect nothing more than to change the wigwam into a hovel...
...whole with these kind of votes. Traditionally Senators are leery of voting against another's earmarks, even if they are bike paths; their own might be on the chopping block next. "But I think in the future we could work with them," Lott added. "It's incumbent upon us to find a way to do that. A lot of their amendments, especially their fiscally related amendments, have a lot of attractiveness...
Sproul, a 25-year veteran of ABC, will examine the accuracy of exit polling and its economic practicality. As an undergraduate, Sproul studied bacteriology and had no journalistic ambitions. She said she simply “fell into” a position at a radio center upon graduation, where she fell again—this time for the rush of having a front seat to national and international events...