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...Ernst painted of his Surrealist mates in 1922, Rendezvous Among Friends, shows all l7 of them then - as well as Renaissance master Raphael in a cameo appearance - posing in suits and ties beneath some peaks of the Tyrolean Alps. Writer-artist Breton poses in the middle with his arm upraised to show who's boss. It was Breton who cracked the whip, writing in 1928: "Beauty will be convulsive, or it will...
...other ways, Hilary is refreshingly juvenile. Her room is an absolute disaster zone, the carpet barely visible among empty ginger-ale cans and discarded Old Navy outfits. She moans about her braces; when she's excited about something, she jumps up and down and tugs on the arm of the nearest adult...
...wearable motor that translates speech into lower-frequency vibrations that can be felt on the skin. Kanevsky created it to help him learn to lip-read the speech of new acquaintances. He marketed the product through an Israeli company and still wears the original device on his arm. IBM's speech-research team, impressed by his math genius and practical inventiveness, outbid others to bring him to the company's Yorktown Heights, N.Y., research facility...
...outlawing Batasuna, the political arm of the separatist paramilitary organization ETA, the Spanish government may be headed for confrontation - not only with the extremists, but also with moderate nationalist majority in the Basque Country. Last Monday, the party's activities were suspended by Judge Baltasar Garzon, whose order was promptly enforced at the party's offices by police. The judge's ruling was based on his findings that Batasuna forms an integral part of ETA's structure and, as such, shares responsibility for the band's terrorist actions. The move coincided with a resolution passed on Monday in the Spanish...
...British singer Gary Glitter, convicted in the U.K. of downloading child pornography?might be viewed as progress in the fight against Asia's child-sex industry. "I started working in Thailand in 1992, and back then there was no legislation?nothing," says Bernadette McMenamin, national director of the Australian arm of End Child Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking, an NGO. Those who lure children into prostitution in Thailand now face jail time of up to 15 years (previously, they were only fined). And predators who have sex with a child prostitute can?at least in theory?get 20 years behind bars...