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...DIED. NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE, 71, French-born model and self-taught artist best known for her colorful papier-mache sculptures of huge, voluptuous women, called nanas, a French term akin to "broad"; after battling emphysema and asthma; in La Jolla, Calif. A member, with Christo, of the Nouveaux Realistes, she first won fame in the early 1960s for her "shooting" pieces, for which she would fire a gun at her sculptures and paintings in galleries. Among her most famous installations is the Tarot Garden--a park in Garavicchio, Italy, featuring 22 monumental pieces inspired by tarot card characters...
...cosmic afterthought," authored The Mismeasure of Man and The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. DIED. CHANG CHANG, 35, the world's oldest captive giant panda, of multiple organ failure; in Jinan, China. Chang Chang's body will be preserved and put on display in the northwestern province of Gansu. DIED. NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE, 71, French pop artist and creator of the Nanas sculptures; in San Diego. Saint Phalle's other important works include Hon, a 28-m-long, 6-m-high figure of a woman that houses music rooms, an aquarium and a cinema-accessed through the installation's vagina...
Both teams enjoyed early scoring chances, with Brooks finding Christino behind the Brown net under a minute into the game. Christino laid the ball off to junior midfielder Katie Shaughnessy, who beat her defender to free herself for a shot. Brown goaltender Niki Caggiano, the reigning Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week, was up to the challenge, however, stopping the shot off the bounce...
...Niki Meunier just lit it up for us, Weiss said...
...help make Ferrari better." It is hard to imagine how he could get any better. Schumacher's combination of raw speed, racecraft, tactical awareness and sublime skill in the rain sets him apart from the pack. "It's easy to win one world championship," says two-time Ferrari champion Niki Lauda. "What's impressive about Michael is that he keeps coming back and doing it again." For this year's title and last year's, the Ferrari has been the best, most consistent car on the circuit. But his first two championships, for Benetton in 1994 and 1995, were...