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When I searched Altavista www.altavista.com for aspartame AND brain AND seizure AND sclerosis, I learned that Markle's message is almost identical to an antiaspartame screed first penned under a different name in 1995. None of the specific allegations pan out, however. Among the more outrageous claims...
Thus we still don't know, and perhaps never will, what is going on in Dosso's Allegory with Pan, circa 1529-32. Maybe the lascivious goat god (if it really is Pan, and not just an ordinary faun) is lusting after the beautiful Titianesque nymph asleep on the ground--who has been variously argued to be Antiope, Pomona, Echo, Canens and Syrinx, among other nymphs with literary pedigrees. But who is the old woman, and what is she doing? If her outstretched palms are protecting the girl, she's facing the wrong direction--away from Pan...
DIED. FRANCES GODOWSKY, 92, painter and younger sister of George and Ira Gershwin; in New York City. Godowsky worked as a child dancer, bringing home $40 a week (her brothers made $15 on Tin Pan Alley). In 1930 she married Leopold Godowsky Jr., a co-creator of Kodachrome, and helped him test the film by posing in colored hats and dresses...
...idea has its roots in W.E.B. DuBois' 1909 proposal for a Pan-African encyclopedia, Appiah said. DuBois, who graduated from Harvard in 1890, never saw his idea come to fruition because of a lack of funding...
...claim was working for Pakistani intelligence -- accusing them of planning to bomb the U.S. embassy on January 26. U.S. investigators have flown to India to interrogate the suspects. "It's too early to confirm that this is Bin Laden," says Dowell. But even if the India plot doesn't pan out, Bin Laden is likely to planning more dramatic attacks. Says Dowell, "He needs the publicity...