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...Christ awkwardly laid across his mother's knees, with John the Baptist, in an unusual gesture, removing his crown of thorns. In the terrific little show's biggest coup, the separate and fragile panels of the Aix Annunciation triptych are brought together - from Aix-en-Provence, Brussels, Amsterdam and Rotterdam - for the first time since 1932. (Two of the cities had but half a panel each.) Attributed to Barthélemy d'Eyck, the magnificent altarpiece, depicting an angel appearing to the Virgin Mary, conceals the devils in its details: a dragon and a bat in the Gothic arches above...
...with those who want immigration stopped, period. Umberto Bossi, leader of the far-right Northern League, which is part of Silvio Berlusconi's governing coalition, said earlier this month that housing in Milan should go to native Italians "and not to the first 'bingo bongo' who comes along." In Rotterdam, the party started by slain anti-immigration politician Pim Fortuyn now controls the municipal council of a city in which more than half the population is of non-Dutch origin. Two weeks ago its leaders said the city would start demanding that newcomers speak decent Dutch and have...
...Moeliker of the Natuurmuseum Rotterdam in the Netherlands explained the origin of his experimentation with Mallard ducks, pulling out a duck corpse from a brown paper bag to illustrate his point...
...used to track everything from pets to prisoners to products. Cars zip through tollbooths thanks to payment systems using RFID. More than 50 million pets worldwide are tagged with RFID chips. At least 20 million livestock have RFID tags to follow them for possible disease breakouts. A museum in Rotterdam uses RFID to guard its Rembrandts and Renoirs. And for the past two years, Oscar-goers have been screened and tracked by RFID...
...campaign guru David Garth in New York, calls Bos "a typical American-style television candidate. He's cool, self-assured and projects credibility. People believe what he says. The Dutch are fed up with traditional politicians and he's the new, fresh face on the political scene." Born near Rotterdam, Bos is the son of an ambassador and has degrees in political science and economics from the University of Amsterdam. He became a Labor M.P. in 1998 and came to prominence as Tax Minister from 2000 to 2002. As his recent poll numbers rose thanks to superb TV- debate performances...