The News Review:
- Israeli police break up Palestinian event signaling trouble for 2009…
- ASIAN POP To B or Not to B
- Ethiopia: Farmers’ Best Friend in the End Could Be Agricultural…
Israeli police break up Palestinian event signaling trouble for 2009…
International Herald Tribune – Mar 26, 2008
“We have the right to practice our culture in Jerusalem. We have the right to dance” said Bassem al-Masri a campaign organizer. Israeli government officials had no comment on next year's planned celebration saying they were unaware of the Arab League's decision. But Israel forbids virtually all Palestinian political activity in the city. “The biggest question is whether Israel will allow us to do this” said Rania Elias a cultural activist from Jerusalem involved in preparations. Illustrating the challenge the competition's winner Khaled Hourani could not attend Tuesday's event.
ASIAN POP To B or Not to B
San Francisco Chronicle – Mar 26, 2008
Is there something wrong with two crews dominated by Asians in the finals?”B-boys to B-menGrace’s rhetorical question is aptly answered in. Tune in to Lee’s wildly entertaining ride through the global evolution of the phenomenon formerly known as breakdance and you’ll realize that not only is there nothing “wrong” with the idea of Asian crews ruling the break — for the past decade that’s actually been the norm… Honestly I think I’m on the borderline of being the worst father ever. And if love of b-boying is a tug of war for Ichigeki it’s a lifeline for the upstart Korean team Last for One. For them the dance represents hope — a slim and solitary chance for a better life. Born in the deep south of South Korea in the city of Jeonju the crew’s members are poor some desperately so. Given b-boying’s current primacy in Korean pop culture — top b-boy crews become superstars performing at presidential inaugurations and in giant.
Ethiopia: Farmers’ Best Friend in the End Could Be Agricultural…
AllAfrica.com – Mar 26, 2008
Conventional farming or farming that is not land friendly has been likened to treadmill and sustainable farming to a dance. "The dance lies in the rhythm of seasons and crops in the way the same piece of farmland is made to alternate year to year between cool-season plants like wheat rye flax and oats and warm-season plants like buckwheat and millet between broadleaf and grassy plants between deep-rooted and shallow-rooted between cash crops and soil-building legumes like yellow-blossom sweet clover. The dance helps break up disease and pest cycles and restores nutrients to the soil. " Fertilizer use has been on the rise in Ethiopia since it began here some 3 decades ago. This indicates that higher cereal production has been the avowed goal of agriculture in the country. This was laudable and in line with agriculture polices anywhere in the world. After all there are 70 million mouths to feed here.