President Hosni Mubarak, meanwhile, inaugurated a $1.8 million project to preserve the massive temple of Abu Simbel in the far south of the country.
Art Pepper The widow of the saxophonist Art Pepper, who died in 1982, has recently inaugurated a CD-reissue project to fill in the blanks of Pepper's career with live recordings.
Part of what made English electronic duo Basement Jaxx so successful is their ability to combine humor and playfulness with masterfully hard-hitting beats, and member Felix Buxton has inaugurated a new side project aiming for a winning balance of just that combination.
He says that the happiest time of his life was when he inaugurated a water supply project in a remote area of Afghanistan that provided children with clean drinking water.
He said: "We are proceeding on the kingdom's religious responsibility; subsequently, we have laid down the foundation stone for expanding the Grand Mosque [and] inaugurated a number of improvement projects in the Two Holy Mosques.
The mega-project inaugurated a new industrial era in the United States that transformed the nature not just of work and life, but also of time and space.
On Thursday evening, the group -- Laura Barger and Ning Yu (who joined in September), pianists; and Ian Antonio and Russell Greenberg, percussionists -- inaugurated a residency at the Issue Project Room in downtown Brooklyn, meant to serve as an incubator for fresh material.
President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran clasped hands in Tehran on Friday, and inaugurated a joint development bank to finance projects in the two countries.
Taking "you are what you eat" rather literally as an ontological project, the University of North Texas has inaugurated a program in the Philosophy of Food.
And Cairo received another jolt this spring, when Ethiopia inaugurated a $520 million hydroelectric dam on a Nile tributary, part of a decade-long project to create a modern electricity infrastructure.
