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...York, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and L’École des Beaux Arts in Paris. While studying in Paris under the G.I. Bill, Kelly became interested in Surrealism, which would inform his later work. He also befriended fellow artists Matisse, Miro, Giacometti and Braque...
Standing in the red earth courtyard of a simple Brazilian homestead, Suzana Padua looks with pleasure at the grove of trees that Valdomiro ("Miro") de Castro and his wife Ireni have planted near their farmhouse and, in the distance, the chartreuse fringe of saplings growing alongside the Morro do Diabo State Park. "Look around you!" she exclaims. "The Pontal is greening...
...implement these ideas, IPE, with the cooperation of the Sao Paulo Forestry Institute, established a tree nursery in the Morro do Diabo park and started distributing free seedlings. It also began sponsoring courses in agroforestry. Miro de Castro is a graduate of the first of these courses, and to date he has planted 6,700 trees, from fast-growing cultivars (eucalyptus, acacia) that are useful for lumber and fuel to native forest trees that produce fruit and nuts...
...Paduas, working with farmers like Miro validates the career switch Claudio made 24 years ago, shortly after turning 30. At the time he was the financial director of a pharmaceutical firm in Rio de Janeiro, and Suzana, then 27, was working as a designer and interior decorator. One day Claudio arrived home and announced that he wanted to work with nature. "Would you prefer a husband who's rich and miserable," he asked Suzana, "or one who's poor but happy...
...complications arising from a pituitary brain tumor; in New York City. HONORED. ARTHUR MILLER, 86, American playwright, with Spain's prestigious Principe de Asturias Prize for Literature, making him the first U.S. recipient of the award; in Oveido, Spain. Miller will be presented with $45,500 and a Joan Miro sculpture at a ceremony later this year by Spain's Prince Felipe of Asturias. SENTENCED. ROBERT HANSSEN, 58, the former fbi agent who doubled as a Russian spy for 20 years, to life in prison without parole; in Alexandria, Virginia. Hanssen, who apologized for his activities, which...