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HIDDEN TUNE The true Da Vinci code may not lie with Dan Brown. According to Giovanni Maria Pala, an Italian musician and computer technician, the grand master stored a secret composition in his Last Supper masterpiece...
...REVEALED Pala alleges that a 40-second requiem lies hidden beneath his brushstrokes. By drawing a five-line musical staff across the canvas, he noticed that the loaves of bread and the hands of Jesus and his Apostles form musical notes. And just like all of Da Vinci's greatest secrets, the score reads right to left...
...Pala, 35, of Salt Lake City, Utah, is in some ways typical. She spent years building a career in the heavily male construction industry, rising to the position of construction project engineer with a big firm. But after her daughter was born 11 months ago, she decided to stay home to give her child the attention Pala had missed as a kid. "I grew up in a divorced family. My mom couldn't take care of us because she had to work," she says. "We went to baby-sitters or stayed home alone and were scared and hid under...
...ordered it, he would have been dead already in the first attempt." RODRIGO DUTERTE, mayor of Davao City, Philippines, denying involvement in the murder of journalist Juan Pala who had survived three previous attempts on his life...
...Other talk-radio hosts have faced similar threats?and more?for their outspoken ways. In the mid-'80s, Jun Pala, a firebrand radio host in the southern Philippine city of Davao had his program interrupted when an assailant shot him in the recording booth. The gunman was believed to be a communist insurgent, angry at Pala's vocal anticommunist stance. This year, Pala was shot at again, this time by men in police uniforms. Although Pala escaped unscathed, two of his bodyguards were seriously injured. A fellow Filipino radio broadcaster wasn't so lucky. The same day Pala was attacked...