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...soon De Jong was also convinced. That night he spoke with Albert Osterhaus, chairman of the virology department at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, where virologist Eric Claas had analyzed the suspect virus using a panel of reagents derived from flu strains isolated and maintained by Webster. Claas had first determined that the virus was H5N1, well before the CDC and Mill Hill. At the outset even he did not believe it. An H5 infection in humans was unheard of. He too assumed the H5 was a contaminant...
...Khatami's remarks bring hope not only to the people who voted for him but also to Iranians like me who love God, human beings and Iran. We want to return home and try for peace, freedom and improvement. Now I have good feelings about the future. AMIR HAMI Rotterdam...
...born and raised in Rotterdam, where his father Leendert de Kooning was a liquor distributor and his mother Cornelia Nobel--reputedly a woman of fearsome toughness--ran a sailors' bar on the waterfront. He studied at the Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts in the 1920s. It often used to be said that de Kooning got an extensive training in classical draftsmanship there. This wasn't true. What he wanted to be was a commercial artist, an illustrator--to do the kinds of illustrations he had seen in American magazines...
...like capitalism. But there is nothing extraordinary about this. The capitalism that came to Russia at the start of the 1990s looked different from the one constructed in Europe several centuries ago. The capitalism of Holland or Switzerland was laboriously created by the industrious and thrifty bourgeois of Rotterdam or Geneva, for whom perseverance, honesty and modesty were religious commandments, acts of faith...
...work in so many conditions that it would be artificial and unreal if your work did not become very different too." One consistent element in Koolhaas' buildings, however, is a relaxed attitude toward detailing and a willingness to use extremely cheap materials. In Kunsthal, an art gallery in Rotterdam, he used unfinished concrete and corrugated plastic for walls, metal grids for flooring, naked fluorescent tubes for lighting and tree trunks for pillars and a balustrade. "Architecture is always the encounter of vision and circumstance," he says. The Dutch, Koolhaas explains, don't believe in spending a lot of money...