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Britons have never been very comfortable with the idea of childhood. ("Culturally, Britain just doesn't like children much," says Batmanghelidjh.) In Victorian England, rich children were banished to nurseries and boarding schools, while their poorer contemporaries were sent out to work. The British are still expected to function as adults from an early age. At 8, Scotland has the lowest age of criminal responsibility in Europe, followed by England and Wales, where youngsters answer for their crimes from the age of 10. Yet children venturing into the adult world often feel rebuffed. "I don't get the feeling that...
...professor of Middle Eastern studies at Brandeis, Makiya lives in a pale green Victorian house near Porter Square. His living room is decorated with embroidered wall-hangings and a table decked with candles...
...keeping with its history. Stonehenge was probably built in three key stages, roughly between 3050 B.C. and 1500 B.C. The identity of its builders, and its purpose, may never be known. Various theories suggest it may have been a place of worship or have astronomical significance. Since Victorian times, it has been popularly linked to New Age beliefs, particularly neo-Druidism - even though archeologists have shown that it was built long before Druidism arrived in England. Still, summer solstice gatherings by New Agers once drew huge crowds to Stonehenge. Fearing that the stones were at risk, English Heritage roped them...
...kind of evanescent "event art" is another manifestation of the recoil from the market, and that it's so widespread across the U.S. that no survey show can ignore it. To accommodate this, for its first three weeks, the Biennial is spilling over to the Park Avenue Armory, a Victorian brick pile a few blocks from the museum that offers room after room of wood-paneled chambers with brass chandeliers and mounted moose heads. In other words, it's a party space. In one of the oaky rooms, the Los Angeles artist Eduardo Sarabia has opened a tequila...
...Jackson's astounding The THIEF AT THE END OF THE WORLD (Viking; 432 pages), "handed Britain the first worldwide monopoly of a strategic resource in human history." And Wickham? He got a pittance for his trouble and went off to farm sea slugs in the Conflict Islands, the quintessential Victorian sad sack: ignorant, incompetent, indomitable...