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...school directors view these more adventurous shows and approaches as learning opportunities. High school versions often come accompanied by study guides; a production of Annie can help educate kids about the Depression and FDR's economic policies; Les Miz can be a window for a comparison of the revolutionaries of 19th century France with the Chinese students at Tiananmen Square. Travalino says her school's staging of Urinetown - about a future dystopia where citizens have to pay to pee - had an educational angle as well. "We have a student who started a recycling program," she says. "I thought, well, this...
...kick against? ERIC KHOO: I think that in order to tell a story and maybe even tell it better, it's sometimes to your advantage if there are going to be restrictions ... You have to think even harder as a storyteller. EKACHAI UEKRONGTHAM: From an artist's point of view it's always good to have no censorship, but in the real world that doesn't happen anywhere. There's some kind of censorship always - if not by the state, then by the society. BRIAN GOTHONG TAN: The suppression in Singapore and Asia in general works...
...Silva, the new Environment Minister, cut an especially peculiar figure as she ambled timidly into view. While most of the crowd standing under a burning sun wore T-shirts and shorts or miniskirts and halter tops, Silva, a hard-core Evangelical Protestant in the world's biggest Catholic country, was dressed in a skirt down her ankles, and she appeared somber and unmoved by the attention, as though she felt unworthy of such acclaim. But the poor voters had cheered her because she was one of them. She was also a potent symbol of both Lula's all-inclusive government...
...This week, that symbolism went the same way as 17% of the Amazon, when Silva resigned her post and disappeared from view. Although she had looked increasingly worn down by the recent power struggles with governors and ministers who prioritize economic development over environmental protection, her decision was unexpected, and it left Lula and the mandarins of Brasilia stunned...
...those diagnosed within 10 years. Doctors also made an incision down his left cheek to remove lymph nodes in his neck in case the cancer had spread; they found it had not. The surgery left a large scar, and for weeks McCain retreated from public view to recover...