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DIED. ALFREDO KRAUS, 71, lyric tenor known for his masterly bel canto roles; of pancreatic cancer; in Madrid. Kraus limited his repertoire, a policy that preserved his voice into his 60s. The selectivity cost him popularity but made him a connoisseur's delight. He sang with Maria Callas on the legendary live recordings of La Traviata in Lisbon...
Less than half a mile away, antecessor's co-discoverer, Juan Luis Arsuaga of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, is excavating at Sima de los Huesos (Pit of Bones), deep inside a natural cave. So far, his team has found thousands of fossils from at least 33 hominids of all ages. About 300,000 years old, they appear to represent an early stage of Neanderthal evolution. Explains Eric Delson, a professor of anthropology at Lehman College in New York City: "For the first time, we have a good population from a single place and enough variation to show Neanderthal features...
...fantasizing about swatting them savagely about the head, shoulders and utility pouch with their obnoxious and nap-destroying phones. There's a guy serving a year in jail in England for refusing to shut up, shut up, SHUT UP for just a few minutes please...during a flight from Madrid to Manchester. Authorities there claimed his mobile's emissions constituted a safety hazard, interfering with air-tower-to-pilot communications. But we know better, don't we? They threw him in the slammer for sweet revenge...
...term fifth column was coined in 1936 by a Francoite general during the Spanish Civil War. He boasted that he had four columns of soldiers marching on Madrid plus an invisible fifth column of supporters within the civilian community. George Orwell, who fought as a volunteer on the other side of that war, wrote in 1941, "Objectively, whoever is not on the side of the policeman is on the side of the criminal," and therefore Britons who opposed fighting the Germans (on pacifist grounds) were "objectively...pro-Nazi." But by 1944 Orwell had changed his mind and declared that...
Llosa received his B.A. at the UniversidadNacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima and hisdoctorate at Universidad Complutense in Madrid...