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Glencore-Xstrata deal unsettles Swiss left wing
ZURICH (Reuters) - Financial haven Switzerland risks a fresh hit to its reputation from the proposed mega-merger between opaque commodities giants Glencore and Xstrata, left wing groups warned. The Alpine nation is struggling to restore its tarnished image as the United States cracks down on hidden offshore accounts held by wealthy Americans in secretive Swiss banks. Many of the world's leading ...
Pioneering gallery says goodbye
Above everything else, it’s a love story. In the 1970s, curator Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo, an ambitious Puerto Rico-born artist, fell in love. A few years later, they founded Exit Art together.
ScienceOnline2012 - thoughts about present and future
ScienceOnline2012 - thoughts about present and future
Giant 35-foot camera built to capture vanishing cultures
(Credit: Video screenshot by Leslie Katz/CNET) And you thought your SLR was a hassle to travel with. As part of a project documenting vanishing U.S. cultures , photographer Dennis Manarchy intends to build a giant film camera--35 feet long--and haul it on a 20,000-mile trip around the country to capture the faces and history of disappearing groups. The Eye of America camera is just in the ...
Warren J. Blumenfeld: Arizona's Cultural Genocide & Social Production of "Knowledge"
Throughout the history of the U.S., in their role as social institutions, schools have reproduced the cultural norms, often with the attendant range of social inequities and dominant group privileges found within the larger society.
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