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Here is what J. Robert Oppenheimer (Simon J. Williams ’09) says when he hears the death toll at Hiroshima: “Some numbers are so big, multiplying by two doesn’t make a difference...
...Artists had their skill to display, and they did so with gusto: combining many figures for maximum drama - see the Florentine Ewer with the Triumph of Neptune (circa 1721) - or freeze-framing a body falling into ecstasy or death, as in a small Bernini clay sketch for Tomb of the Blessed Ludovica Albertoni (circa 1761-74). Baroque went way over the top and beyond, and this exhibition is the perfect way to revel...
...Meanwhile, the number of victims is also growing. In the past three months, 15 cases of suspicious deaths in China's jails have been reported. An official with the with Supreme People's Procuratorate told the state-run Xinhua news service that seven detainees had been beaten to death, three committed suicide, two died in accidents and three cases were under investigation. (See pictures of China's electronic-waste village...
...February, 24-year-old Li Qiaoming was beaten to death by other inmates in a jail in the southern province of Yunnan. The initial explanation, that he had died during a game of "elude the cat" - a type of "hide and seek" - touched off widespread indignation at the implausibility of the story. To respond to the outcry, provincial officials invited a group of bloggers and journalists to investigate the circumstances of Li's death. The unusual exercise in public participation stumbled when jail officials refused to provide critical pieces of evidence, including surveillance tapes of the detention center. The comments...
...Health that it had a case of atypical swine flu; and on Sunday, Health Minister Dr. Martin Vazquez recognized Oaxaca as being the state that started the alert. (Though other affected states may have suffered earlier infections, they did not notify the central government.) And so Adela's death kick-started the epidemiological investigation. So far, 159 people in Mexico are suspected to have died from the H1N1 virus. The hospital in Oaxaca currently has three patients suspected to be suffering from the virus who are not responding well to treatment...