Federal authorities

Premier Wen Jiabao, the country’s top economic official,

said Wednesday growth appeared to be stabilizing and he

expressed confidence the country can meet its official

targets for the year. Wen gave no growth forecast or a

possible time frame for a recovery.

“Economic growth is stabilizing and we are confident through

our efforts we can achieve the full-year targets for economic

and social development,” the premier said in a Cabinet

statement.

Federal authorities have arrested a man they say was plotting

to blow up the Federal Reserve building in New York City,

just blocks from the World Trade Center site.
Authorities say 21-year-old Quazi Nafis was arrested

Wednesday morning after a sting operation that involved the

FBI and New York Police Department. The suspect parked a van

filled with what he believed were explosives outside the

building and tried to detonate it.

But his associates were actually undercover officers who

arrested him at the scene — and the bomb was not real.

Federal prosecutors say the man was monitored closely by the

FBI in New York and members of the Joint Terrorism Task

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Force, and the public was never in danger.

The world’s oldest profession is giving a whole new meaning

to love of the game.

Players on a cash-strapped Greek soccer team now wear pink

practice jerseys with the logos “Villa Erotica” and “Soula

’s House of History,” two bordellos it recruited as

sponsors after drastic government spending cuts left the

country’s sports clubs facing ruin.

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Senior PML-N leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, the leader of

opposition, said the resolution was a precursor to a military

operation in the Waziristan tribal region though Mualana

Fazlullah, considered the mastermind of the attack on Malala,

was hiding in Kunar province of Afghanistan. Khan also

accused the government of failing to implement previous

parliamentary resolutions aimed at tackling militancy.

Religious affairs minister Khursheed Ahmed Shah rejected

Khan's allegations and said there was no mention of

Waziristan in the proposed resolution. He said the PML-N

could make changes to the draft or move a separate resolution

on the issue.

However, Khan insisted that the government merely wanted to

get the opposition's mandate to launch an operation in North

Waziristan.
She was forced into prostitution by her greedy parents who

made good money by selling her to various pimps. However, the

15-year-old girl managed to escape from the trafficker's

clutches and hid at a shelter in western UP. When she

couldn't be found, her parents sought the help of police to

trace her. Little did they know that the move would land them

in the police net. The teenager has been rescued from Sambhal

in Uttar Pradesh.

The girl's father, who supplies vegetables at the wholesale

market in Ghazipur, was under debt after suffering a loss in

business. He had recently brought the girl to the capital

from his native village, on the promise of providing her with

better educational facilities. She had barely adjusted to

life in the big city when her parents made her meet a pimp,

Ravinder Singh, involved in several cases of trafficking

across three states.

Landscape with Saint John on Patmos

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For Poussin, the construction of a landscape involves the construction of a particular mental weather, so that each of the artist's technical considerations--color, line, form--is simultaneously a psychological consideration. Nature, in Poussin's work, is not inchoate. Nature has an affect that might be regarded almost as a kind of consciousness, although it is not always in harmony with the consciousness of the people who inhabit these landscapes. Landscape with Saint John on Patmos, painted around 1640, when Poussin was in his midforties, appears to be one of the first canvases in which the landscape takes on this role as a protagonist in the story. In order to show us John writing his gospel on the Greek island of Patmos, Poussin developed a composition that is a hymn to solidity: the solidity of the stony landscape; the still-eloquent rectangular and cylindrical fragments of classical architecture; the elegant buildings in the distance; the solidity of the saint himself, who suggests the timelessness of a figure on a sarcophagus, his long left arm, bare to the elbow, as muscular as a stone mason's. The painting is an architecture, composed of powerful rectilinear forms--both geological forms and the forms that men have carved from stone. And this architectonic space in turn suggests the architecture of Christianity, an implication that is underscored by the papers at John's side, the pages of the gospel that suggest an architect's plans. Yet to describe the painting in this way makes it sound more contrived than it really is, for the variations of color and touch, the extent to which Poussin honors the particular qualities of foliage and stone and cloth and clouds, giving each its indivisible individuality--all this complicates the design. In Poussin, there is no theme without variations.