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...Every type of pot comes from a certain tradition. Using certain materials and symbols, you can instantly conjure up a particular culture. There’s turquoise for the Middle East, blue and white for Delft [from the Netherlands], the bottle green ware of France, the ironware of Japan and Korea. If you use those techniques they immediately evoke a culture, and if you mix them you create hybrids. You hope that people can pick up on it—that’s where an increase in visual literacy comes into play...
...matter the many layers of myth surrounding Zheng He, the Chinese are confident they'll uncover a Ming-era wreck near the Lamu archipelago, where bits of Ming ceramic ware have surfaced in the past, and that it will be their legacy that gets burnished when they find it. A team of Chinese archaeologists is expected to commence work in July. It won't be alone - last year, following a visit to Kenya by Chinese President Hu Jintao, a Chinese state petroleum company won concessions to explore more than 100,000 sq km of Kenyan waters for oil. That will...
Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, Koh was the Massachusetts public health commissioner from 1997-2003, where he was an unusually effective communicator, championing issues of tobacco cessation, health care disparities, and community involvement, Ware said...
...Ware said that Koh spearheaded a tobacco prevention program that led to a dramatic decline in smoking rates in the state, particularly among young people...
...program had a clear-cut impact,” Ware said...