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...first try ended in wreckage on the rocks at Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. He spent 15 months building and outfitting another boat, sleeping on floors because he had no money. Last August, he set out again. He was delayed for three months by the troublesome El Nino current and spent the time listening to the BBC and brooding about nuclear warfare and Israel's invasion of Lebanon. In tapes he made at the time, his speech is painfully slow; photos he made of himself show a sad and serious face. When his boat broke up on the Barrier...
What is to blame for the pernicious weather? Meteorologists suspect there are three basic factors: a warmer-than-usual El Nino current from the Pacific, the jet stream pulling cold air down from Canada, and major volcanic activity in Mexico and Hawaii. It has all added up to a volatile mix of weather down below. -By Susan Tifft. Reported by Jerry Ford/Salt Lake City and Dick Thompson/San Francisco
...offspring, or some of them, at the Guggenheim Museum. "Italian Art Now: An American Perspective" is the latest in the Guggenheim's discursive series of "sample shows" of the current art of different nations. It covers the work of seven artists: three painters (Sandro Chia, Enzo Cucchi, Nino Longobardi), two sculptors (Giuseppe Penone and Gilberto Zorio) and two conceptual/per formance artists (Luigi Ontani and Vettor Pisani). Most of these men are in their 30s, and Pisani, the oldest...
...prospects for such a success were by no means clear twelve years ago, when Armani had to be cajoled away from his steady $40,000-a-year job designing men's wear for Nino Cerruti. It took the considerable persuasive powers of Sergio Galeotti, then 25 and a draftsman in a leading Milan architectural firm, to lure Armani from the kind of early middle-aged complacency he was slipping into. Armani, the second of three children of a transport-company manager in Piacenza, 40 miles southeast of Milan, grew up during World War II and remembers waking up screaming...
...June, the acting director of the Nino Jesus Children's Hospital in Madrid had established the first firm lead on the cause of the illness. By painstakingly analyzing his patients' diets, Dr. Juan Manuel Tabuenca discovered that the one common factor was foods cooked in a product billed as pure oh've oil. It was then found that the product was not so pure, but rather an unsavory mixture of olive oil, liquefied pork fat and colsa, or rapeseed oil. The oil, originally imported from