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...manufacturing clothes abroad; they outsourced their inspiration. Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, who had recently traveled to Botswana, brought back a sexy show filled with zebra-striped chiffon dresses, ivory bangles and chic safari jackets. After a 10-day romp through Asia last April, Giorgio Armani returned with a vision of a fictional Asian woman in soft satin pajama pants, boxy Chinese jackets and coolie hats. Gianfranco Ferre looked over the horizon to exotic locales like San Salvador de Bahia and the Amazon rain forest for his orchid-covered creations, and included python sandals and zebra-striped dresses...
Though she has been sightless since the age of 12, Sabriye Tenberken has never lost her vision. She sees the needs of those who share her disability. In the late 1990s, the Bonn native, who was blinded by a congenital degenerative retinal disease, studied for a master's degree in Tibetology in her hometown. But there was no Braille alphabet for the 42 syllable characters of that complex Asian language, so she developed one - in just two weeks. "It was a matter of necessity," she explains. "I had picked Tibet as the country where I later wanted to do development...
...turn raw agriculture products into processed goods. "If you're exporting cotton, you can sell yarn," he says. For many, economic self-sufficiency can't come soon enough. "A return on investment in health and education takes a long time," says Paul Busharizi, business editor at Uganda's New Vision daily newspaper. "Meanwhile, we're not building capacity. We're taking all these kids to school, but they're going to come out and have no job. At the end of the day, where are these guys going to work?" Maybe Uganda will have an answer by the time Headmistress...
...come for that—and even for a thriller it didn’t make much sense, by film’s end. The Forgotten turned out to be the kind of film from which you can expect to walk away at least with a vision of the darker side, of the stuff of nightmares and dystopian visions, a new cinematic trick in your bag of coping mechanisms for what life throws...
...Institute. Together, they crafted what would become neo-conservatism—an attack on Jimmy’s Carter weakness, but mainly a new conservative agenda to end arms control, rebuild the military, aid anti-Communists and thus (they believed) defeat the Soviet Union. This was the coherent policy vision Ronald Reagan could consistently embrace; this was the program the voters of 1980 understood they would be getting...