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...briefing room, Irina Grivnina, a Soviet dissident who had been allowed to emigrate only last month, started yelling about political prisoners. The next day, when Swiss officials told Grivnina to leave as Lomeiko began his briefing, she angrily refused, pointing out her credentials as a reporter for the weekly Dutch magazine Elseviers. Grivnina's shouts attracted a stampede of reporters. Lomeiko, fuming about "people who use this for their own purposes," could barely be heard above the din. "It's either this woman or it's me," he shouted. "I warn you!" Finally, Lomeiko stalked out of the room...
...years experts have known that many of the works attributed to Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-69) were actually by his students or other admirers. One critic suspects that as many as 300 of the great Dutch artist's supposed 720 paintings are not actually Rembrandts. So far 170 have been reclassified, and last week came word that experts have determined that two more works were painted by someone else. Special neutron photography confirmed that The Man with the Golden Helmet, a beloved masterpiece housed at West Berlin's Staatliche museum, does not match known examples of Rembrandt's work. After...
...these countries, they were found to be many times as likely to become pregnant. And while black teenagers in the U.S. have a higher pregnancy rate than whites, whites alone had nearly double the rate of their British and French peers and six times the rate of the Dutch. Observes AGI President Jeannie Rosoff: "It's not a black problem. It's not just an East Coast problem. It's a problem...
...Holland, sex is similarly demystified. While the country has no mandated sex-education program, teens can obtain contraceptive counseling at government-sponsored clinics for a minimal fee. In addition, the Dutch media have played an important role in educating the public, says Dr. Evert Ketting of the Dutch Mental Health Center, citing frequent broadcasts on birth control, abortion and related issues. "We've been told that no Dutch teenager would consider having sex without birth control," says Guttmacher Spokeswoman Jane Murray. "It would be like running a red light...
...lifetime aberration. Now, even that cold comfort seems endangered. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is about to hit the English-speaking world after a dazzling debut in Europe. The original German-language edition of this novel sold more than 400,000 copies; translations into French, Spanish and Dutch also became best sellers, and the book will ultimately appear in more than 30 languages. Someday, centuries hence, this phenomenon may seem easily explicable. Of course: How could such a book fail? After all, it is about a physically repulsive 18th century Frenchman with no discernible personality, no body odor...