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...historian Carlo Bertelli says Piero was appreciated at the time for his innovative way with perspective, but he is now also prized for his "enigmatic" touch. "He is a painter of enormous clarity, but also of great reflection," says Bertelli. "You could say that it was necessary that he 'slept' in these centuries so that he could be rediscovered." The most impressive gathering ever of his work, "Piero della Francesca and the Italian Courts," runs from March 31 through July 22. Appropriately, it is taking place in the far eastern corner of Tuscany, at Arezzo's State Museum of Medieval...
Would that be safe? Carbon dioxide can be lethal, a fact grimly illustrated in 1986 when a giant surge of the stuff bubbled up from Lake Nyos in Cameroon, asphyxiating 1,700 people as they slept. Nonetheless, investigators involved in the Thornton project insist there is little cause for worry. "The fields held oil and gas for millennia," says Larry Myer, an earth scientist with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., and the project's director, "so geologically we know they're going to hold...
...Bach Tuyen, who was his primary caretaker for the last 18 months (the orphanage has about 15 caretakers at any given time for the 153 children who are Pax's age). Wandering around the orphanage dormitories, Ms. Tuyen points out the small now empty bed that Pax slept in in the corner of the room. "He was here, and now he's gone," she says sadly. "I'm very happy for him. I miss him and so I am sad - but we have other children to take care of." She adds, "Everyone is sad since he's left," Tuyen says...
...Steve and I would pay very little attention to our classes and then furiously inhale the key books just before an exam,” Gates recalled in a 1995 autobiography. A member of the Fox Club, Gates has said he was as a loner at Harvard who rarely slept, “sitting around in my room being a philosophical depressed guy, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life...
...Steve and I would pay very little attention to our classes and then furiously inhale the key books just before an exam,” Gates recalled in a 1995 autobiography. A member of the Fox Club, Gates has said he was as a loner at Harvard who rarely slept, “sitting around in my room being a philosophical depressed guy, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life...