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...Franco-Flemish Polyphony
...proposal is so hopelessly lengthy and technical that it is incapable of stimulating the least enthusiasm among European citizens. On February 20, 77 percent of Spaniards approved the treaty by referendum, but the turnout, at 42 percent, was the lowest of any national vote since the death of Franco...
Though AIDS sufferers have yet to benefit from the Franco-American "miracle," research on the virus has shed considerable light on the nature of their disease and why it so devastates the immune system. The virus launches a direct attack on helper T cells (or T lymphocytes, as they are also known), invading them in much the same way that the hepatitis virus homes in on cells in the liver. Once ensconced in the T cell, explains Dr. Clifford Lane of the National Institutes of Health, the AIDS virus prevents this vital cell from doing its job as "the initiator...
...private, the Colombian government showed far more concern about the situation. In the second half of October it invited a group of Italian volcanologists to visit Colombia. Their task: to give an opinion on the danger posed by Nevado del Ruiz. The team's conclusions were alarming. Said Franco Barberi, a professor of volcanology at the University of Pisa: "The volcano has certainly not finished its activity. Actually, the worst may be yet to come." On Oct. 22, the Italians submitted a report to the Colombian government warning that an "extremely dangerous" eruption could be expected at any time. They...
...bespectacled New Yorker, who has covered John Paul II's papacy from Day 1 was, in fact, pipped at the post by the Italian wire service ANSA, whose Vatican bureau chief Gianluca Vannucchi got Navarro's email on his Blackberry and ran into the press center yelling "Franco! Franco! Franco!" His colleague, Franco Pisano, was already hitting the letter T for "transmetti" (send) on his keyboard, followed by S for "si." That put the Italians a couple of seconds ahead of AP, whose Bill Kole hit "send" on a newsflash prewritten by Simpson - "Vatican says Pope has died" - after being...