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...neat illustration of the shifting balance of wealth between West and East, much of the early funding for the museum stemmed from Macau. As a condition of its former gaming monopoly, casino mogul Stanley Ho's Sociedade de Turismo e Diversões de Macau donated tens of millions of dollars to the Fundação Oriente up until 1996. The money provided the basis for the Fundação Oriente's present riches, and helped elevate it to the ranks of Europe's 20 largest foundations. Ho has said he hopes the new museum will further...
...locally, and one-third is donated in kind.) A local bean supplier arrives. Two women in blue lab coats take samples, check that there isn't too much extra matter mixed in and weigh the bags. The porters then run the food into the warehouse and stack it in neat rows and columns to form elaborate, sheer-faced structures as high as three-story buildings. On average last year porters like these across Uganda handled more than 1,000 metric tons of food - tens of thousands of bags, all loaded and unloaded manually - every single day. "Whatever comes in goes...
...neat trick, turning discipline into ecstasy, and Coldplay executes it with enough variations to keep things surprising. Strings pop up everywhere--not to grease your tear ducts but to enrich the sound and drive the countermelodies. After years of playing to the back row, guitarist Jonny Buckland has discovered that guitars come with more than one pedal, and his work on Lovers in Japan and Violet Hill is admirably precise. Will Champion, whose previous claim to fame was having the greatest drummer name of all time, bangs away on his kettles and timpani like a man celebrating his release from...
...when he realized he got a kick out of charting his own weight on a piece of paper taped to the wall: "My whole family took an interest. Seeing how that was able to excite the people in my family, I thought, Oh, this is a really neat experience that I'd like to bring to other people...
Burma's state-run media continues to portray a well-oiled state relief campaign: soldiers unloading relief supplies from helicopters, generals inspecting neat rows of refugee tents. Government propaganda is also used to justify the curtailment of most foreign assistance. This week the junta has ejected almost every expatriate aid worker from the disaster area. The people of Burma will "accept any kinds of foreign aid with appreciation," comments The New Light of Myanmar, a mouthpiece of the ruling junta. "However, they will not rely too much on international assistance and will reconstruct the nation on [a] self-reliance basis...