Damn This Recession/Depression, Let's Use This Stressful, Dangerous, And Lost Time To Get Our Civilizational House In Order

"Households [around the 'developed' world] are retrenching after the greatest wealth loss in equities and housing in history."

Jeffrey D. Sachs "A Bridge for the Carmakers: The Future Is in Sight. They Just Need Help Getting There" Washington Post November 17, 2008
















Unlike some new American Opera Houses, the new Singapore and Oslo Opera Houses look to their own 21st centuries for their artistic inspiration.

Photo credits: (c) www.snoarc.no [Snohetta] and (c) flo and studying-abroad.de. With thanks.

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Opera International -- its roots in Karachi, Pakistan. "Your Dreams, Our Inspiration"