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Unlike Malevich, Liubov Popova died young -- scarlet fever got her in 1924, before Stalin's purges could. She was only 35. At least she was spared the miseries of censorship and persecution visited on other Russian avant-gardists by Stalin. Moreover, she died at a time when it was still possible for an idealistic, exuberantly gifted young artist like herself to believe in the promise of Leninism. Her last works, such as the 1923 collage stage design for a play about the revolution called Earth in Turmoil -- showing a helmeted aviator, prototype of the new Soviet Man, gazing...
Another thing about the smaller Tahitian islands: you shouldn't drink the water there. Or at least, I shouldn't have. And neither should my mother, or the Canadians, because we all rapidly fell victim to a mysterious disease later tentatively identified as Dengue fever. (The Germans were spared because they drank only beer...
...OWNERS FIGHT IRAQ! trumpeted newspaper ads promoting the patriotic and financial virtues of the PetroMizer gas-saving device. That was before investigators in 16 states concluded that the PetroMizer was a hoax -- part of a surge of efforts to make a fast buck from gulf-war fever. Following legal action, the PetroMizer ran out of gas. But war-related come-ons continue. A fierce dispute between New York City consumer affairs commissioner Mark Green and Florida's Home Shopping Network has broken out over a print ad that urged consumers to "support our armed forces" by purchasing "Authentic Operation Desert...
...does gambling fever run so high among teens? Researchers point to the legitimization of gambling in America, noting that it is possible to place a legal bet in every state except Utah and Hawaii. Moreover, ticket vendors rarely ask to see proof of age, despite lottery laws in 33 states and the District of Columbia requiring that customers be at least 18 years old. "You have state governments promoting lotteries," says Valerie Lorenz, director of the National Center for Pathological Gambling, based in Baltimore. "The message they're conveying is that gambling is not a vice but a normal form...
Similar secessionist fever in Croatia, meanwhile, nearly erupted in war when Belgrade accused Croatian defense minister Martin Spegelj of fomenting an armed insurrection. Federal troops were called in, and a tense standoff was resolved only when Croatia agreed to demobilize -- but not disarm -- its police reservists. Unrepentant, Slaven Letica, an aide to Croatian president Franjo Tudjman, declared, "If it comes to civil war, Croatia is willing to fight and confident that it will prevail...