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...exhibit in Paris until May 30 in a show entitled "Shootback," the title Wong gave to her training project. This is not the Kenya of big skies and herds of animals. It is real life, up close as seen by residents of one of Africa's most violent and dire corners. The teenagers - many as young as 13 - had little formal schooling and few future prospects. Most spent their days at the Mathare Youth Sports Association, an activity center which agreed to house Wong's classes. Yet amidst their grim surroundings, the youth captured humor and beauty in their photos...
...blog, Brown quoted her boyfriend’s reaction to Catalano’s words, asking, “Why was it deemed only necessary to inform students; do violent predators discriminate between undergraduates and employees...
...shown that he is willing to lay off hardball politics. He has repeatedly brought up the fact that a Hamas spokesman said positive things about Obama, even though Obama did not reciprocate the compliments. McCain has also tried to tar Obama by his relationship with William Ayers, a once violent anti-Vietnam War activist, by demanding that Obama call on Ayers to apologize for his actions. (Obama has shot projectiles at McCain as well, misquoting McCain's willingness to have American troops in Iraq for "100 years.") The real message behind McCain's call for "a respectful campaign" appears more...
...Given the size of the quake, damage can be expected with a 100 km radius of the epicenter, says Robbie Morris, a project scientist with the Australian Tsunami Warning System. "If you are quite close in ... at the scene, shaking will be very violent with visible cracking of ground, quite likely with heavy damage around epicenter," Morris says. The distance of the earthquake from Chengdu, which has 10 million residents, helped prevent more extensive damage. "Going as far as Chengdu ... you can expect have quite strong shaking but much lighter damage. That will depend on local buildings and local building...
...Violent and frightening they may have been, but these groups were also essential to ensuring that the free-market economy took root. With the police and courts in free fall, it was protection rackets that guaranteed that contracts entered into by the new entrepreneurs of Eastern Europe would be honored. "If it wasn't for the mafia in Russia and elsewhere in the early 1990s, nothing would have moved, nothing would have happened," said Gary Busch, an American businessman who worked in Russia during the turbulent 1990s. "They were essential for the free market." The gangs of Sofia, Moscow...