Word: barcelona
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Between two boarded-up storefronts deep in the poor barrios of central Barcelona, I turned to enter a rotted out doorway and saw 60 allies of the biggest people’s revolution of the 20th century. Jaime, a lean, dark-skinned Colombian immigrant, enthusiastically greeted me to the meeting, encouraging me to join in their cause for liberation...
...Australians staged enormously successful Games in venues built in special sports parks located in open space. But the Games in Athens will be played mostly in older, smaller, refurbished venues scattered amid a dense, urban setting. Critics predict gridlock, but planners speak of a more intimate Games, much like Barcelona in 1992. "We will have Games on a human scale," says Angelopoulos. That will suit Jacques Rogge, the I.O.C.'s new president, who is determined to reduce the scale and complexity of the Olympics. At Seoul in 1988, almost 8,500 athletes took part in 23 sports; in Sydney...
...tried to make political capital," says Berkoff. "I feel deeply for the victims and wanted to portray that." While Berkoff uses verse to emphasize the epic magnitude of the disaster, French playwright Michel Vinaver goes one step further. His homage, The 11th September 2001, which will premiere at Barcelona's National Theater of Catalonia in October, couples expressions heard on and around the day itself with his own translation of Euripides' The Trojan Women. "There is an illuminating relationship between the fall of Troy and Sept. 11," he says. "These two huge events of a mythic size seem to form...
...information to some 20 people. If they are not killed by accident or some other disease, these individuals are predetermined to get early-onset Alzheimer's. Molinuevo, a soft-spoken neurologist who looks younger than his 32 years, runs an Alzheimer's diagnosis and counseling program at Clinic de Barcelona, one of the country's leading research hospitals. The other members of the team include a geneticist, a psychologist and a psychiatrist. There are about 400,000 Alzheimer's sufferers in Spain, the same proportion as in the rest of the world: roughly 1% of the general population. Those...
...more and more diseases are likely to be predictable. This is already the case for Huntington's disease, a related neurodegenerative disorder. Molinuevo doubts that the non-genetic form of Alzheimer's will be predictable any time soon, if ever, because of the multiplicity of possible causes. Meanwhile, the Barcelona program continues to work on the principle articulated by the 18th century English writer Samuel Johnson, who said, "Nothing so concentrates a man's mind as the knowledge that he is going to be hanged." Molinuevo believes someone who knows they will fall to early-onset Alzheimer's is going...