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...they've got in their shed. When it's fixed and it works, it's a real victory that you've done it yourself and it hasn't cost a thing." That frugal ingenuity is shared by many rural women, says Wendy Hucker, of the Pioneer Women's Hut museum at Tumbarumba, New South Wales: "People around here still use vinegar and newspaper to clean the windows, kerosene for getting grease marks off clothes, bar soap and cold water for grass stains." The "culture of capability," as Thomson calls it, was born of hardship. People had very little, so they...
...mental” note takers. Why is it that, even at an academic institution as distinguished as Harvard, you can easily spot in one corner of every class at least one woman who is taking notes with 8 different colored pens in a notebook that belongs in the Museum of Fine Arts, and in another corner, at least one guy taking notes that look more like hieroglyphics with a dull, eraser-less pencil on the back of a McDonalds receipt? I find it fascinating that women at Harvard can sit still in the library for hours at a time doing...
...Milosevic's body was unloaded from the plane, Serbia started slipping back to normality. On the evening of the body's arrival, the U.S. artist Lou Reed sang in Belgrade to a delighted audience, and he attracted a much bigger crowd then Milosevic's coffin, on display in a museum. By the next day, the heavy snow that had been falling for most of the week had melted away, and the sky cleared?in Belgrade, spring has finally arrived...
...museum of history in Hong Kong last month, you could visit an exhibition whose centerpiece was a old, bleached, shaped piece of wood, 11 m long. To be honest, it didn't look much. But it told a tale. For the wood was a rudder post from a huge Chinese junk built around the time, nearly 600 years ago, when the Chinese Muslim eunuch admiral Zheng He embarked on seven epic voyages that took him to southeast Asia and the shores of India, Arabia, and Africa, trading for spices and fabrics, livestock and raw materials...
Zoologist David T. Suzuki told a packed Science Center B that humans are on “a suicidal path” as a species, as he accepted the 2006 Roger Tory Peterson Medal from the Harvard Museum of Natural History yesterday. Suzuki blamed unsustainable population growth and economic expansion for “shattering” the connection between humans and nature. Suzuki, author of more than 30 books, host of a popular nature television series, and honorary member of two Native American tribes, was presented with the Peterson award for his work in sustainable ecology and environmental advocacy...