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...recent high-profile case that has highlighted the difficulties in authenticating a piece of art is a disputed Jackson Pollock painting, purchased for $5 in 1992 by ex-trucker Teri Horton in a California thrift store. Biro was also involved in that investigation. He matched a partial fingerprint on the canvas to one on a paint can used by Pollock and paint on the canvas to samples from Pollock's studio. Still, despite the forensic evidence, the art community has been reluctant to certify the work. There is no record of the painting's former ownership, and examinations by experts...
...according to Mitchell's study: a syndrome of symptoms and complications - eating problems (86%), pneumonia (41%), difficulty breathing (46%), pain (39%) and fever (53%) - caused by brain failure. "Dementia ends up involving much more than just the brain," says Dr. Claudia Kawas, professor of neurology at the University of California, Irvine. "We forget the brain does everything for us - controls the heart, the lungs, the gastrointestinal tract, the metabolism...
Hailing from Oxnard, California, freshman defensive back Brian Owusu is the second oldest in a family of five standout athletes...
...California-native, whose goal against Cornell last Saturday earned her the Ivy League Rookie of the Week, was nervous. When practice ended, Kurcz was unsure of how her performance stacked up on this new stage. But her fears were quickly dispelled...
Indiana University Professor Elinor Ostrom and University of California at Berkeley Professor Oliver E. Williamson will be the recipients of this year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, the prize committee announced yesterday—to the surprise of some members of the Harvard Economics Department...