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...energy policy and his appointment of conservative officials to top posts overseeing public lands have made the pendulum swing back to the other extreme, toward one of concern about how far the development push will go. "They just don't get it," says Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club. "Their ideological base is so out of synch with ordinary people on this." Even Congress is uneasy about that momentum. With an eye to the polls and the 2002 elections, some Republicans joined Democrats in late June to vote down any new oil or gas drilling in national monuments...
...that was how I was told I was HIV positive." At first she thought AIDS was like a bad flu. When she realized how serious it was, "I cried for nine days. I was not eating. I thought it was going to be the end of my life." As Sierra Leone emerges from its brutal 10-year civil war, it finds itself facing a new enemy: HIV/AIDS. But while Florence now understands the destructive power of the affliction, the government does not. Twenty years after a strange, new disease was first noted in an American medical journal, this...
...AIDS, though the government promises one by the end of the year. The National AIDS Control Programme, which has existed since 1987, barely functioned even before the war and today has just seven staff members. Dr. Patrick Moses, who took the reigns at the NACP in 1999, says many Sierra Leoneans believe the disease is a Western conspiracy to deprive Africans of pleasure and fill the coffers of foreign aid groups. "They tell me AIDS stands for American Intentions to Discourage Sex," says Moses, sitting in his tiny, file-filled office in Freetown's moldering Connaught Hospital. "Or people think...
...energies and intuitions--the people--of every other nation pass, it enjoys what economists call competitive advantage in the global balance of talent. So the best American director can hail from Taiwan, the best American artist can be an African American who takes inspiration from village crafts in Sierra Leone and the best American fashion designer can be a kid from Texas whose showrooms are in Paris and London. In the end, they stand as examples of Yankee ingenuity, if only because the U.S. was smart enough to gather them...
...created by casting patternmakers. Another is folk technology: basket weaving, canoe building, the construction of tents, yurts and kites. (Puryear had some conventional art-school training at Catholic University of America in Washington in the early '60s, but he also worked with African carpenters in a remote village in Sierra Leone as part of a Peace Corps program, and an important part of his aesthetic education came in 1966, studying with one of the great American furniture makers, James Krenov.) Sometimes his pieces resemble hybrids of basketry and cooperage. A beautiful example is Brunhilde, 1998-2000, an open-form cage...