Utah: Hip-hop is making itself heard – and seen – at the Sundance Film Festival. In addition to performances by rappers Drake, Common, Nas, Lil Jon and Chuck D, the festival includes documentary and narrative films about hip-hop culture. Ice-T’s documentary, Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap, premiered at the festival. It stars artists such [...]
Por LINGLING WEI, de Pequim Mais empresas privadas chinesas estão tendo acesso ao mercado nacional de títulos de dívida, que durante muito tempo foi dominado por emissores estatais, enquanto Pequim tenta aumentar a sua base financeira como parte dos esforços para se abrir gradativamente ao capital estrangeiro. O volume de títulos emitidos por empresas não-estatais, [...]
By MARSHALL HEYMAN Stefan Ruiz Creative Time president Anne Pasternak becomes the star of her own show, with her face projected on a billboard in Times Square. While most people amble around Art Basel Miami Beach paying more attention to who else is there than to the art on the fair’s walls, Anne Pasternak flies [...]
There are 40,000 individual stories from the women in Britain with PIP implants. Debbie Lewis is one of them and she agreed to let us film her replacement surgery. The 43-year-old hairdresser from Buckinghamshire decided to have implants about eight years when she and her husband separated. She said: "I always wanted bigger boobs and [...]
Philadelphia Of all the Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, “The King and I,” in which a high-handed Siamese potentate is given a lesson in democracy by a prim Welsh schoolmarm, is the one to which time has been kindest. Sixty years after it first opened on Broadway, “The King and I” remains both charming and—if done [...]
By HEIDI MITCHELL Heidi Mitchell reports on a family falconry outing, plus five other places to learn spear-fishing, gladiator skills and other arcane sports. Photo: Gleneagles Hotel. It began—as too many misadventures do—with a raffle. At my oldest son’s school fund-raiser we won a trip to Medieval Times. So off we went to New Jersey [...]
Dubai: Almost 500 students at the American University of Sharjah (AUS) graduated yesterday in the presence of His Highness Dr Shaikh Sultan Bin Mohammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council, Ruler of Sharjah and Founder and President of AUS. The commencement ceremony was also attended by Shaikh Sultan Bin Mohammad Bin Sultan Al Qasimi, [...]
[Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:25:35 -0400] Release Date: 11/29/2011Contact Information: Donna Heron 215-814-5113 / heron.donna@epa.gov PHILADELPHIA (November 29, 2011) — On November 30, 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance will hold a Food Recovery Workshop at the Capital Union Building on Penn State University’s Harrisburg Campus. Registration begins at [...]
By CRAIG CHAPPELOW AND JEAN BRITTAIN LESLIE Mid-career derailment can happen any time, but in today’s economy there is no room for complacency. With job opportunities harder than ever to find, it’s a particularly rough time to be fired or demoted or to hit a career plateau. You can reduce your risk for derailment by [...]
In our series of viewpoints from African journalists, Ghanaian writer Elizabeth Ohene wonders why we get so obsessed with other people's ratings of us. Quick as a flash came the young man: "Don't bring in Ghana, the size of their budget is like or even less than the budget of Lagos state." It also seems [...]