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...extracting the maximum visual punch from skilled labor: not only could they reproduce great designs at a fraction of the cost of painting, but they could also cover enormous surfaces with sumptuous effects. Monarchs loved them, setting up weaving factories in the Netherlands, France, Naples and Madrid. Naturally, the Medici had to have their own. Most elaborate of all were the pietre dure designs - fantastically elaborate inlays of jasper, lapis lazuli, serpentine and all manner of semiprecious stones, sawed into thin sheets and assembled as a jigsaw by gem cutters. Francesco de' Medici in particular, Cosimo's son, took delight...
...opportunity to buy a $2,500 dress or a $30 pair of socks. But to maintain his momentum, Takahashi must branch out into upscale markets overseas. His grand plan: by early next year, Takahashi plans to sell his creations in 16 cities, including Paris, Rome, New York, London, Berlin, Madrid, and Hong Kong. If consumers take to him, his reputation as Japan's next designer genius will be cemented. But failure will suggest he's just another local hero whose work couldn't transcend its parochial appeal. Through it all, he's struggling to sustain the punk/anarchist/anti-war/anti-mass media/manic image that...
...region. Artur Mas of the Catalan-nationalist Convergence and Union coalition called for a new autonomy statute that would give Catalonia separate representation in the E.U. and other international bodies, and the final say on its public finances. In exchange, Mas offered to support the governing Popular Party in Madrid. The demands were immediately rejected by the government. IRAQ Let Our People Go In a rare display of defiance, hundreds of Baghdadis protested outside the offices of the secret police and the Ministry of Information, demanding to know the fate of missing relatives. This followed the surprise decision by Saddam...
...lumber harvesting. Even my beautiful small waterfall was gone. I wondered where the birds had gone. Were they dead? I can only conclude that the Johannesburg 2002 summit on sustainable development will soon be nothing but a historical footnote, just like Stockholm 1982 and Rio 1992. VICTOR OSA-ASEMOTA Madrid...
...other countries. In Spain, it's still at No. 3 in its 19th week on the charts. Las Ketchup's album, Hijas del Tomate - Asereje plus "nine other songs just to fill up the CD," says Iñigo López Palacios, a pop critic for the Madrid newspaper El Pa?s - has gone platinum. All this success has surprised even Las Ketchup, who grew up in a big musical family but never expected to have a hit with Asereje - or any song at all. Just a year ago, the three sisters from Córdoba had never performed...