“On October 22, federal Arts Minister Peter Garrett told the Australian National Academy of Music by fax that it would not receive its Government funding of $2.64 million for 2009, effectively truncating its activities from the end of this year… The minister’s reasoning — ‘ANAM no longer represents the most efficient way of delivering support for elite classical music training’ — used deadening language to sound the death knell for this unique institution.”
Tag: 11.03.08
Red-State Teens And Forbidden Fruit
“The vast majority of white evangelical adolescents – seventy-four per cent – say that they believe in abstaining from sex before marriage. (Only half of mainline Protestants, and a quarter of Jews, say that they believe in abstinence.) … [But] evangelical teen-agers are more sexually active than Mormons, mainline Protestants, and Jews.” They’re less likely to use contraception as well. Why?
Via JetBlue, A Whiff Of Travel’s Romantic Past
Eero Saarinen’s masterpiece, the long-empty TWA terminal at JFK Airport, “is making a halfway comeback. The Port Authority has begun to restore it, but the work won’t be finished for months, and it remains unclear whether the building has a destiny as a food court or just a white elephant. Meanwhile JetBlue has transformed it into a neat little accessory for its new $743 million Terminal 5, designed by Gensler.”