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...take part in Singapore's national pastime of shopping, but bored of brand-name stores? Then check out the nine-month-old Market of Artists and Designers, better known as MAAD, maad.sg. Held on the first weekend of every month at the Red Dot Design Museum on Maxwell Road, this is not your usual rummage sale of bad macramé and lopsided pottery. Instead, MAAD is an outdoor bazaar that stresses cutting-edge work from budding fashion designers, graphic artists, painters, jewelry makers, housewares makers and product designers. Before they go on sale, the items need the tick of approval...
...would be nice, the police superintendent says, to take down the high, barbed-wire-topped walls that ring Antrim Road police station. Plenty else has changed already. The petrol bombs and bullets the walls used to hold back have stopped flying. Guards at the gate no longer keep their guns conspicuously unholstered. In fact, so much has changed in the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) that when a young Catholic like Rory Fitzpatrick - who just 15 years ago could have viewed the force as his natural enemy - explains why he joined in 2004, his answers are unremarkable: good prospects...
...Potts tells Simpson about a small riot over the weekend involving 40 or 50 people from each side of the fence. In times past, such altercations might have had deadly consequences. Potts himself was charged with making an affray at high-profile 2001 protests against Catholics using a Protestant road to get to a Catholic girls' primary school. When a fight breaks out these days, Potts and his nationalist counterparts work together to break...
...Corps's disastrous performance during Katrina, many locals distrust it. The state worries that the Corps, despite reassurances from the director of its civil-works division, will shortchange wetlands protection in favor of its traditional preference for large levees. "We're not going to let them go down that road," says Robert Twilley, chief scientific adviser to the state's planners. "If we don't restore our wetlands, the levees won't last and neither will our economy...
...this track just because we want to isolate the Syrians," a former U.S. diplomat told me. "This could be the wedge that separates the Syrians from Iran." Or it could be another dead end. Then again, stranger things have happened to travelers as unlikely as Ehud Olmert on the road to Damascus...