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...early canvases ? can be a landing field of airborne phalluses, breasts and buttocks, of things squirting, and of brown excremental splats. In The Italians, a 1961 painting begun after he moved his studio to a teeming quarter of Rome worked by prostitutes, darting lines like fever charts describe the local energies...
...visited the Hague courtroom where former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic was being tried. Unlike when he had engineered the dismemberment of Yugoslavia and forced more than 2 million Bosnians from their homes, Milosevic was not in charge. As he ramped up his rant against the judges to a fever pitch, the judge simply turned off Milosevic's microphone, leaving him gesticulating wildly and foolishly but emitting no sound...
...Miro was born and raised in Barcelona. But his parents had a farm near Tarragona, at Montroig, and although he wasn't by any definition a country boy, he did spend a good part of his youth there from 1911 on, starting with recovery from an attack of typhoid fever coupled with a mild nervous breakdown. It is tempting to relate the extraordinary sharpness of focus, the dreamlike distinctness of Miro's early rural images to the fevered impressionability of a convalescent mind. The countryside in general, and Montroig in particular, would always exercise a peculiar fascination for Miro...
...began telling me what she was experiencing, it became clear that this might be something other than spinal woes. For one thing, she had had a fever a few days earlier and was feeling run-down. She also remembered having severe itchiness in the areas where she now had pain. Her other doctors initially worried that she was having a heart attack or that she had an ulcer, though antacids brought no relief. I asked her to describe the pain. "Stabbing," she said. The clincher was a band of reddened skin - extending from the middle of her back around...
Scientists have hypothesized other health consequences of climate change before, some better supported by evidence than others: heat waves that kill, new breeding grounds for mosquitoes that spread deadly malaria or dengue fever, and stagnant warm air pockets that trap disease-causing smog. But in this study, says lead researcher Tom Brikowski, he and his colleagues are pretty sure they've traced a direct relationship between human health and temperature - no mosquitoes or air pollution are needed to make the link. Even in the belt region where kidney stones are common and populations have adjusted their lifestyles to the heat...