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...three and a half Euros. Budweiser in Germany? Oh, that. The Germans were outraged that an American brewer had the beer concession, but Anheuser Busch knows how to play global marketing as well as anyone: money talks, especially at FIFA, the world soccer body. Nevertheless, AB had to allow a local brewer inside the stadium just to make friends, which is, after all, the theme of the tournament...
...come home to my mother singing this song, which is no doubt what’s happening right now. I liked “Deliver Us From Eva.” I even liked “Headsprung.” But this time the lip-licking and ab-flexing just doesn’t cut it. LL needs to either control himself and stop recording or give Marley Marl another call. -J. Samuel Abbott
...group of Ugandan and Western organizations and a senior U.N. aids expert claim that Uganda has over the last year allowed a condom shortage while promoting a message of abstinence based on religious dogma. "It's been a deliberate government policy to shift the emphasis from ABC to AB," Stephen Lewis, the U.N. Secretary-General's special envoy for hiv/aids in Africa, said last month. Ugandan aids campaigner Beatrice Were agrees: "There is a new wave of stigma ? attached to the use of condoms. Those of us who promote condoms are looked at as immoral people." The Ugandan government says...
...Michelangelo all the time he needed to correct his shadows without having to use the washes of black pigment and glue size that the critics believe to be his handiwork. And because his retouching was chemically integrated with the plaster, there is no reason to suppose that the solvent AB-57 would remove...
...antis make much of the fact that AB-57 -- a dilute solution of ammonium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate, a fungicide and gelling agent in water -- has been used for cleaning stone. But on stone it is left for between one and 24 hours and is strengthened by the disodium salt of EDTA, a substance that aids in the removal of calcium compounds; on the Sistine frescoes it is used in a weak solution, in varying applications lasting at most three minutes. It is an efficient solvent but a bland reagent. The fear that the cleaning has taken off any of Michelangelo...