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...fleeting emotion of his subjects: "It's almost as if the person was obligated for some mysterious reason to stay there. It was destiny to arrive there at that moment with that particular light and body language and expression." A late addition to the show is a small (50-cm-by-30-cm) rendering of The Madonna and Child, from early in Piero's career, which has been loaned by a private collector...
...Levels The IPCC predicts a rise in sea levels of 18-59 cm. But the assessment doesn't account for the possibility of accelerated glacial melting posited in a recent Science study, which estimated that seas could rise as much as 1.4 m by the end of the century-enough to swamp low-lying coastal cities...
...Some of the robots exist simply to amuse. Montreal's WowWee Ltd., for example, used technology that trickled down from the military and NASA to create Robosapien, a cartoonish humanoid with cutting-edge capabilities. Standing around 61 cm tall, he can perform 80 functions, including disco dancing, kicking and kung...
...Investigators said they were gathering debris from the Russian-made, 45-cm-long missile that hit the heavily guarded building on top of the soaring U.S. seal on the embassy facade...
...winning four ITF under-18 events as a 13-year-old. Apart from an impressive baseline game, Tomic, now 14, plays with the kind of palpable intensity that these days is a prerequisite for getting anywhere in tennis, and he looks destined to be a tall boy, perhaps 190-cm by the time he stops growing. The leap from juniors to the Tour is huge and the tennis canyon is full of former prodigies who didn't make it. But Tomic is the best Australian prospect since Hewitt...