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“The most important painting of the twentieth century.” This was said of Pablo Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” before the century was even half over. It remains one of the most original and disturbing works in the history of art.
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In the article “Easter Island’s End,” Jared Diamond described the steps that led to the deforestation of a subtropical, fertile paradise.
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Chemotherapy robbed Rachel Midgett of her hair, appetite and energy as she battled breast cancer that had spread to her liver. After nine months on Novartis AG’s Afinitor, she ran a half-marathon in Las Vegas in December.
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Chile has canceled tsunami warnings for southern cities, Easter Island and Antarctica after 2-meter (6.6 feet) waves stemming from Japan’s strongest earthquake on record struck the South American country’s Pacific coast, the government reported today.
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In “Modern British Sculpture” at the Royal Academy , there hangs a little work by an artist named Urs Fischer . “Untitled” (2000) consists of half an apple screwed to half a pear, suspended from a thread.
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Latin American governments from Mexico to Chile closed Pacific coast ports, oil pipelines, roads and schools on tsunami alerts after Japan was hit by its strongest earthquake on record.
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Early this year, as Jorge Perez struggled to restructure more than $1.5 billion of debt on mostly vacant Florida condominium projects, doctors discovered a golf ball-sized tumor on his pancreas.
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Once upon a time, in the 1960s, Anthony Caro used to paint his sculptures in bright colors.
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Drunken revelers vex the monster Grendel, who invades the noisy mead-hall and proceeds to devour the lot. Only a hero can save the day.
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Grafting ape testicles onto old men was the rage in 1920. Some 300 patients of the Russian doctor Serge Voronoff underwent this costly surgery, looking for “rejuvenation.”
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