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...this, plus the white wound left when a mine is gouged out of a mountain, can only hurt property values. Carolyn Droge, 38, an artist who helps care for her elderly parents, tried to sell their airy, wood-beamed house overlooking the proposed mine site so her father could move closer to the hospital. A home that she believes should have sold practically overnight took many months to move. "Once buyers learned about the mine," she says, "they walked away...
...hunters than there used to be. In addition to the 8,000 members of the armed forces in Afghanistan, there are now nearly 800 U.S. forces based in the East African nation of Djibouti, across the Red Sea from Yemen, and a Marine Corps amphibious assault ship, the Belleau Wood, has been in the area since August. Sources tell TIME the U.S. is looking to use the port of Assab in Eritrea as a naval base to keep an eye on traffic between Yemen, Sudan and Somalia. At home, the CIA's Counter-Terrorism Center (CTC) now has a staff...
...Century Elements tapped Chen, who grew up speaking English and is one-eighth Portuguese, because she cuts an international figure, says company vice president Vienna Wood. Corporate sponsors prefer their hired mouthpieces to be as cosmopolitan as they are recognizable. Besides, the Hong Kong market is small and getting smaller; CD sales have plunged by nearly 60% since 1996 to $96.6 million last year. Inevitably, mainland China is seen by entertainment companies as increasingly important, so record companies want artists with cross-cultural appeal. It's no accident that Chen's contract-signing was announced?with great fanfare...
...adjust her onstage moves according to local tastes. "Tricia has to have a little Hong Kong style," he says, "or else she won't be accepted." Her managers are equally conservative. "We will still consider the Hong Kong market and how the industry works here," says vice president Wood...
This light, airy room with the soft wood floors: this is the Eurythmy room. Eurythmy is difficult to explain, even though I had a class in it twice a week for a decade. “Form, movement and language all ‘sound’ the essential nature of the world in different ways,” is how the Spring Valley Eurythmy school’s website explains it. “Eurythmy is a movement art that brings all three together. It gives expression to the whole voice of the human being and the world language...