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...also seeing growth. "At one point you couldn't find people who were doing restoration," says Priya Paul, who buys art both for herself and for her family's chain of boutique hotels. These days, she and some other collectors are allowing their collections to be used to help people who would otherwise have to seek training abroad. Paul recently worked with the staff of digital archive Tasveer Ghar, who had received funding from Heidelberg University to catalog her collection. Poddar went even further and opened his entire collection to students at Jawaharlal Nehru University, who then curated the foundation...
...from the testimony of defectors like Kang Chol Hwan, who spent a decade as a boy in one of North Korea's most notorious camps for political prisoners, the conditions of the journalists' imprisonment could be brutal. The Administration is considering whether sending a special envoy to Pyongyang would help. Former U.N. ambassador Bill Richardson, who has traveled to Pyongyang on special diplomatic missions, said recently, "Now is when the negotiating really begins." (Read "Your Move, China...
...diplomats believe China is willing to broaden the economic sanctions already in place against North Korean companies suspected of proliferation. News that the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council agreed on the terms of a resolution on North Korea bolstered the view that China is prepared to help. (Read "Spotlight: North Korea's Nuclear Test...
...Wimbledon and Pakistani operations against the Taliban as if they were the most important stories in the world. Meanwhile, arriving over the Internet transom, rough and insistent and bloody, were the tiny electronic dispatches from protesters forced off the streets in Tehran, shaky videos from a city screaming for help. For outsiders tuned in to the blog posts, Facebook updates, Tweets and YouTube videos, the torrent of information was compelling and confusing, emotional and rife with rumors, full of sound and fury signifying ... what we do not yet know...
...washed out. Messages went back and forth explaining what to do with chemical burns and about which embassies had opened their doors to people seeking refuge. For a while the address of the Australian embassy became a trending, or most popular, topic on Twitter as users sought to help by re-Tweeting the information. Other sites aggregated photos taken by camera phone or small video cams. (Read "The Iran Election: Twitter's Big Moment...