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...power between the main nationalist and socialist parties, to the chagrin of Madrid, which is struggling to contain more militant separatism in the Basque region. Not So Dirty, After All CZECH REPUBLIC Officials announced that contrary to earlier reports, radioactive material seized in a police sting was not weapons-grade, nor was it suitable for making a dirty bomb. Two Slovaks were arrested on Nov. 14 in the eastern city of Brno after allegedly trying to sell to an undercover agent 3 kg of what appeared to be nuclear fuel rods from the former Soviet Union...
...MEDICAL MIGRAINE No matter whether you are running a business, toiling in an office or looking for a job, you are probably feeling the health-care sting. Workers notice it in the form of higher payroll deductions and larger co-pays for prescription drugs. HMOs, which typically used to cover hospital stays in full, are adding deductibles of about $240 a visit...
...architecture preservation foundation, Save Venice. Although based in Washington, D.C., for tax purposes, the group of 140 people raises and spends money to preserve Florence's artistic legacy. It helps that Brandolini can tap some of her real-estate clients, such as Bette Midler and Mel Gibson. Sting, Franco Zeffirelli and Zubin Mehta all sit on the Advisory Committee. "They are Florence's best friends," says Antonio Paolucci, a former Italian Culture Minister who is now Florence's superintendent of fine arts. "They have already spent more than $3 million helping us conserve the city's works...
...also remember that Sting had a big year then, with a similarly millennium-conscious album, its title heralding the world’s Brand New Day. A video of his hit song “Desert Rose” (the last collaboration anyone can remember between American and Arab pop culture icons) featured the singer, some malaise on his face, fiddling with a digital camera in the back seat of a slick black car, driving through the desert on his way to a gig in a hopping and vaguely Arab dance club with his collaborator, Cheb Mami. This said...
...strange, like magazines and news organizations compiling obituary pieces for my father in 1994 after he wrote his now-famous letter to the country saying he had Alzheimer?s. Requests for an interview or article, to be held back until the time of his passing, didn?t sting me or even seem inappropriate. Death is a delicate matter, but it will come, and my father is part of history. It?s a far different thing to learn that people who have never met you wrote a script meant to eviscerate your family and it has now been filmed and scheduled...