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...this show -- capitals and bases from the 10th century caliphal period, for instance -- one sees the forms of Roman antiquity dissolving into the Islamic taste for allover pattern; eaten away by deep carving, a recognizably Ionic capital turns into a web of exquisite stone lace, a sort of architectural counterpart to the deeply incised ivory caskets and pyxes favored by the courts of al-Andalus. One of the most impressive bowls in this show, a deep conical form bearing on its inside surface a design of a Portuguese nao, or trading ship, so powerful in its rhythms of hull...
...cookie dough flavor had smaller chunks ofdough than its Ben and Jerry's counterpart, but abetter ice cream base. Chocolate Mud Pie andPeppermint Chocolate Chip were rich and creamy,although the chips in the overly strong peppermintice cream were small and tasteless...
...care, particularly in the U.S. In Chicago and New York City, the number of hospitalizations for acute attacks in chil dren under age four has surged. "A black child in the inner city has a 13- to 16-fold better chance of dying from asthma than his white suburban counterpart," says Dr. James Wedner, an allergist at Washington University in St. Louis. Poor or uninsured asthmatics often get medical attention only on a crash basis at the hospital emergency room. They receive no treatment for the underlying condition, so their lungs deteriorate...
...track down rumors of adultery, it is acceptable to investigate possible lies about it. Such a feeding frenzy by the press could undermine Bush's plan to campaign heavily on the idea that he is more in touch with the "family values" of most voters than his Democratic counterpart...
...past three weeks, commanders from Askeran, an Armenian town on Karabakh's border with Azerbaijan, and Agdam, on the Azeri side, have met along a dirt road on the front to negotiate prisoner exchanges. Alakhverdi Bagirov, the commander of local Azeri Popular Front forces, and Vitaly Balasanian, his Armenian counterpart, have known each other since childhood, long before their two towns were divided by war. Balasanian, 33, who managed a restaurant in peacetime, runs the headquarters of his battalion from a stone fortress built in 1751 on a hill overlooking Askeran. At their daily negotiations, he and Bagirov...