:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 3.03.2005 ::
:: "US display marks 1,500 war dead" ::
From BBC News
Portraits of nearly all of the 1,500 US troops killed in Iraq are going on display at a New York state university.
The pictures, mostly painted by art students, stare down from a 60m (200ft) wall at Syracuse University.
"It's not about the war or politics. It's about these people who have given their lives," said Stephen Zaima, a professor at the university.
According to AP news agency, the number of US servicemen and women killed in Iraq reached 1,500 on Thursday.
ALSO
Portrait exhibit gives faces to soldiers killed in Iraq
Newsday, NY
The exhibit, called "To Never Forget: Faces of the Fallen," is a continuation of a project started last year by students and faculty at The College of Marin in California, who produced the first 1,109 portraits. The Marin portraits also are on exhibit at Syracuse. The show runs through April 1.
The 374 5-inch-by-7-inch images created at Syracuse are war casualties from September 2004 to Feb. 19. The combined portraits are arrayed in seven rows along a 200-foot long stretch of wall in the Shaffer Art Building.
The portraits come in various mediums: pencil, ink, oil paint, water colors, prints, even a few computer-altered images. More than 250 students, faculty and staff, and local artists volunteered to help create the new portraits.
AND
A tribute to dead soldiers, on hundreds of canvasses
Syracuse.com
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