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WHAT I DID OVER CHRISTMAS BREAK Most teenagers would consider sneaking off to a party enough excitement for the holidays. FARRIS HASSAN, 16, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., stole away to a war zone. Hassan, the U.S.-born son of Iraqi Americans, wanted to travel to Baghdad to better understand the plight of Iraq's citizens. "I thought I'd go the extra mile for that or, rather, a few thousand miles," says Hassan, who left the U.S. Dec. 11, notifying his family in an e-mail from the road. The teen bought a $900 plane ticket to Kuwait with money...
...passenger seat, was initially flown to a hospital in a Green Zone in Baghdad, he said. He was then flown to a hospital in Germany and finally to the U.S., where he arrived at what he considers home—the base of the 101st Airborne Division in Fort Campbell, Ky.Morris said he is now undergoing physical therapy in order to rebuild the muscle in his leg.“I hope to be back up and running within three months, but it all depends on how long it takes for my leg to heal,” he said.Major...
...limited nature of photographic realism is just one of the weighty themes explored in this exhilarating exhibition, which runs in Tokyo until Jan. 9 before moving to the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. and then to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. The retrospective spans 30 years, incorporating 104 of Sugimoto's best works, pieces that bring fresh insight to philosophical dualities such as permanence and transience, perception and experience, time and nothingness. While Sugimoto, 57, has been the focus of one-man shows at the Guggenheim in Bilbao...
...year of high school. Or of some lame memory of your own. —Henry M. CowlesBelieveFort MinorLinkin Park’s Mike Shinoda would love for you to know that he is tremendously clever. Clever enough, according to his website, to give his new group the name Fort Minor to “reflect the dynamic between opposites,” and to write all the songs on his new album. Rest assured, Shinoda hastens to assure his implausibly numerous fans that he is still “an essential shard in the mosaic of Linkin Park...
...quarter than in the same period last year, a 21% jump. That hardship is prompting some to rethink holiday splurges. But prices have come down from their post-Katrina highs, far enough to spur a spike in consumer confidence. For a while, says college student May Rashid, 22, in Fort Worth, Texas, "gas prices were taking all my money," and she planned to cut holiday spending. Now, with gas prices falling, she figures the crunch will be manageable and is enticed to keep shopping because "I keep finding things that I know people would really want...