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...roommates and I] see them all over the place. We've worked with John in the [Currier House] wood shop, swapping ideas," Walsh said. "They were very accessible and friendly. We can always go up to talk to them, or eat dinner with them...
Lucia Quachey, president of the Ghana Association of Women Entrepreneurs, is proud that Hage-Ali is showing the world the other side of the African woman. "Not just the woman with the child on her back, pregnant, wood on her head," she explains, "but the African women who operate computers, who employ people, who generate resources to help in the growth of the national economy." Those are the women Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, Ghana's First Lady, has drawn into the biggest and best-organized women's association in Ghana, the 31st December Women's Movement, named after...
...blacksmith shop in the busy market town of Keren, Fikad Ghoitom explains the national attitude: show me, don't tell me; ingenuity applied to example; homegrown know-how. Fikad's brother saw a wood-cutting machine in an English magazine and forged one out of scrap metal. Down in the artisans' suq in Asmara, men in blue overalls don masks cut from cardboard to weld new pots from old oil tins and cooking braziers from rusted rods. The clang, hammer, sizzle of makeshift industry are everywhere as boys flatten old iron bars for their brothers to beat into new shovels...
DIED. BEATRICE WOOD, 105, ceramist and bon vivant, whose affairs with early 20th century artists and writers earned her the name "Mama of Dada"; near Ojai, Calif. Wood, who credited her longevity to "chocolate and young men," also inspired the character of Rose in the film Titanic...
...intent is to ensure the continued provision of thigh-quality, reliable service to the institutions of the Long-wood Medical Area," Zeckhauser said...