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...ratios, which left men idle, contributed to armed rebellion." The government's decision to relax the one-child rule for those who lost children in the recent earthquake is sensible and just, however, and suggests that China's rulers are gradually becoming more sensitive to human-rights issues. John Farquhar, Brisbane...
...noon on Friday, a beleaguered Watson had canceled his remaining engagements and was flying back to the U.S. "His decision to leave the country, I believe, was due to things going on at Cold Springs Harbor," says his publicist Kate Farquhar-Thomson, referring to the Long Island lab where Watson is chancellor. Though Farquhar-Thomson declined to speculate what those "things going on" might be, odds are they include the lab board's decision yesterday to suspend Watson's administrative responsibilities...
...People Will Always Need Plates Appealing to nostalgic Modernists and car fanatics everywhere, People Will Always Need Plates, the witty London duo of Hannah Dipper and Robin Farquhar, do a roaring trade out of applying illustrations of 1930s houses and today's city traffic to their bespoke crockery. Often open to commissions, they also print tea towels. www.peoplewillalwaysneedplates.co.uk...
...project on the Isle of Skye--lighting an entire mountain known as the Storr--was Farquhar's most ambitious. Unfolding Landscape took four years of planning and paperwork, cost about $1.8 million and used 22 tons of lights and rigging. The effect, when the weather cooperated and the Scottish mist was just right, drew raves and won Britain's most prestigious lighting-design award. For six weeks last summer, some 6,500 visitors--200 a night--donned boots and waterproofs, picked up headlamps and walking sticks, and made the strenuous two-mile trek to the base of the cliffs, accompanied...
...everyone was impressed. A reviewer for The Scotsman, who attempted the climb on a windy night and made it only halfway up, compared the work to wrapping a mountain with a bow. ("Beautiful mountain, could you take the bow off, please?") And even Farquhar admits the piece may have gone a step too far. His more modest projects--an illuminated path through a lovely Scottish glen, a festival of light showcasing Glasgow's architectural treasures--tend to be more successful, exploring hidden layers of meaning in familiar places by literally shedding new light on them. --By Michael Brunton/London