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While traveling in Europe this summer, I stopped by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and noticed a few empty spaces where paintings ought to have been. This bothered me, for, after all, I had come to the museum to see paintings I couldn't see anywhere in the United States, and the paintings were obviously missing...
...winner happens to be one of the event's speed queens, Marion Jones or Inger Miller, the gap could be as much as 10 meters. Williams' personal best time is 11.91 seconds, slower than every 100-meter champion in Olympic history save Betty Robinson, who won gold in Amsterdam in 1928 in just her fourth track meet...
That may change after last week's report, delivered at a meeting of the European Cardiology Society in Amsterdam. Researchers reviewing studies involving 27,000 patients in nine clinical trials found that the risk of heart attack was 27% greater--and the risk of heart failure 26% greater--among users of calcium channel blockers than among patients taking other hypertension drugs...
...music. "[There is] this arrogant sexuality to the modern world that I find very annoying, and I guess threatening. Everything has to be cool. Everything has to be sexy and fast-paced and rock-and-roll." Daniel Clowes, creator of Eightball comics, remembers visiting a modern-art museum in Amsterdam with Ware: "After about three rooms of Damien Hirst-ish paintings, I thought he was going to start tearing the art off the walls...
...heroine as determined and spunky as Flint. Once she has recovered from her near death ordeal, she sets out to track down the villain who maimed her and stumbles ever deeper into the coils of the Enterprise. Eddy gives her a glamorous itinerary, including stops in the Caribbean, Paris, Amsterdam and Cyprus, and plenty of near escapes. Her adventures may be more diverting than credible, but Flint, who emerges from it all as a genuinely sympathetic and interesting character, looks as though she may have some pretty good commercial legs...