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...millions of tourists visiting France's Loire Valley every year. But as he peers up at the prematurely-hung Christmas decorations glittering above the immaculate, well-tended streets, Youness Ouzaanik is aware of just how different this postcard scene looks from the desolate landscapes of Blois's vast housing projects - where he lives, along with nearly a third of the city's population. "I'm not asking for Christmas decorations, just street lights that work," says Ouzaanik, a 21-year-old university student and French-born son of Moroccan immigrants. "No one expects the projects to be transformed into something...
...remote towns in such war-ravaged countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo. But access to the Internet lags far behind. According to the UN Conference on Trade and Development, just 3.1% of Africans have access to the Internet, and less than 1% use broadband connections. In vast swathes of the continent, people simply have no access to electricity, let alone the means of communication and of accessing the information available to much of the rest of the world. Bringing those people into the information age will be a critical dimension of strategies to raise them out of poverty...
...Russo and Robert Benton, and adapted from a Scott Phillips novel. It’s a nasty, biting little bugger, a film noir bejeweled with shards of sharp black comedy. Its seedy characters—linked together through mob ties—mingle aimlessly in squalid strip clubs and vast stretches of barren glacial suburbia. They’re all motivated by a common goal: escaping the tedium that lays thick all over Wichita, Kan. It’s a reverse “Wizard of Oz,” with all of the Dorothys and Totos desperately clawing over...
...first place. “‘[Slavs!]’ not only provided opportunities for larger-than-life artistic choices, it required them,” says Spillane-Hinks. “A student director working on the Mainstage runs a risk that the vast space will dwarf actors. I knew that this show would push us towards staging and design strategies that would fight against that danger.” Yet in spite of all its philosophical and visual grandeur, Spillane-Hinks insists that the HRDC production of “Slavs!” is intimate...
...Sucks” it is clear that T-shirts with a statement are not just a teenybopper trend. Now, more than ever, people are wearing their opinions on their sleeve, rather than taking the time to speak them.As a shirts-with-cute-sayings aficionado—I possess a vast repertoire of “Everyone Loves A [insert regional, religious, or ethnic trait here] Girl” tops—I often feel the need to defend my fashion choices.Unlike the well-endowed preteens trying to fast forward the aging/mating process with a nice “Who needs...