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Ljubljana’s newest bridge
Construction of a new bridge over the Ljubljanica, mesarski most, connecting the central market with the river’s north bank, began late last month. Here’s a video via the daily Dnevnik of what it’s going to look like. More about t...
Pollution in China
Some terrific –and terrifying– photos of pollution in China, by Chinese photographer Lu Guang. He recently won a $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant for his documentary project aptly entitled, “Pollution in China”. Check out more he...
How Obama Came to Plan for ‘Surge’ in Afghanistan
Good NYT report on the decision-making process for what is now his war. Two days later, Mr. Obama flew to West Point to give his speech. After three months of agonizing, he seemed surprisingly serene. “He was,” said one adviser, “totally at pea...
Kundera on ‘Kafkan’ stories
Came across this entertaining vignette last night in Milan Kundera’s The Art of the Novel (1986): In one of his books, my friend Josef Skvorecky tells this true story: An engineer from Prague is invited to a professional conference in London, So he...
Happy birthday Prešeren!
France Prešeren, Slovenia’s most famous poet and writer, would have been 209 today. Above is a pair enjoying a mid-afternoon snooze last Spring in the square in Ljubljana which bears his name. Words and phrases he molded form Slovenia’s ...
Workers’ Demonstration in Ljubljana
About 30,000 people turned out for a demonstration on Saturday organized by Slovenia’s major national trade unions. Their key demands included raising the minimum net monthly salary to 600 EUR. They also voiced their opposition to a proposal wh...
