- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
Monthly Archives: November 2002
M’sian, S’porean And French Artists Exhibit Works
KUALA LUMPUR — Sixteen Malaysian, Singaporean and French artists are putting their artistic works on display at a weeklong exhibition at the Soka Gakkai Malaysia here. The “Pont de Arts” exhibition, which was opened by French Ambassador to Malaysia Jacques … Continue reading
Visual arts: The alternative avant-garde
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Niederkirchnerstrasse 7, Berlin, until February 9, 2003. Tel: +49-30-254 860. Think of the early 20th-century avant-garde, and the great names rise up like Poseidon from the waves: Picasso, Tzara, Mondrian, Kandinsky, Brancusi, Le Corbusier. By the 1940s, in western … Continue reading
Laying waste a continent
Recorded HIV/AIDS cases are growing at an astonishing rate in southern Africa and the deadly virus is threatening the manpower of the world’s poorest countries. What can the UNAIDS program do to battle the spreading consequences of this global problem? … Continue reading
Eastern Europe’s World-Class Brainpower
The region is luring foreign R&D investment not just with low costs but with quality scientists and technicians At a trade show on mobile-phone technology in Cannes, France, last February, Finland’s Nokia showed off what the next generation of wireless … Continue reading
Vast Majority Targets Ethnic Segments
As advertisers continue to digest the 2000 Census data that show America is increasingly a multicultural melting pot, more dollars are being shifted away from general market budgets to those targeting Hispanics, African Americans, and Asian Americans. According to a … Continue reading
