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...Scene of Carnage Spain once suffered another terrible, unexpected and punitive attack [EUROPE, March 22]: the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. On April 26, 1937, German airplanes launched an all-out assault to help Generalissimo Francisco Franco break Basque resistance to his Nationalist forces, an event Pablo Picasso memorialized in his famous antiwar mural. TIME reported on the bombing in our May 10, 1937, issue...
...heedless spending though. Lynn Franco, director of the Consumer Research Center at the Conference Board, an economic-research group that closely tracks consumer confidence, notes that the TV upgrades are typical of a purge-and-splurge shopping style that has emerged in the age of big-box discounters. "Consumers will trade up and buy down at the same time," Franco says. "They'll shop at Wal-Mart and buy a Lexus." With their relentless discount shopping and the occasional affordable luxury, consumers have kept the economic recovery going...
...inventor Ed Kelley suddenly discovered that his telephone calling card had been canceled--the number had been stolen and used for exorbitant calls to Central America and Asia--he decided he'd had enough. To put an end to swiped identities and pilfered credit cards, he and IBM engineer Franco Motika set about developing a new generation of smart cards. The recently patented, theftproof card contains a computer chip and features a tiny numerical keypad right on its face. The cardholder inputs a PIN, stored directly in the card's circuitry; the same code must be entered before each...
...illegitimate son was his teacher's superior. Co-curator Jonathan Nelson says the show "introduces a new artist similar in style and equal in quality" - he pauses, correcting himself - "superior in quality to Botticelli." Filippino, he says, "combined a poetic vision with an extraordinary ability to render naturalistic details." Franco Camarlinghi, president of Firenze Mostre, the organization that produced the exhibit, agrees: "I adore Botticelli as an inventor of ideas, but Filippino comes off as the greater painter. We have to change Florence's point of view." Vittorio Sgarbi, an art historian and critic, says that Filippino emerges from...
...Europeans polled said the Jewish state "presents a threat to peace in the world.") But on this occasion, fearing that the ICJ hearing could hurt the peace process, current E.U. President Ireland and nine other member states sent only written briefs. "The political knot," said Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, "cannot be resolved with judicial opinions." As a result, the 19-member Palestinian delegation - backed by representatives from 12 mostly Muslim nations - had the floor to itself. At issue is Israel's controversial "barrier" - an amalgam of trenches, towers, concrete walls and barbed-wire fences that may eventually snake...