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...Flamenco is native to Andalusia and has Moorish, Roma and Jewish roots. The fair is one of the region's oldest festivals, celebrating a spring livestock market dating back to 1847, and has evolved into a colorful megabash on the city's outskirts. The fun begins when, at the stroke of midnight, the fair's ceremonial gateway is lit up by thousands of lightbulbs. Lining about 15 streets are more than 1,000 casetas (brightly colored canvas tents), in which flamenco fanatics can dance, eat and drink the night away. Be sure to try pescaito (fried fish) and glasses...
Such trials can sometimes bring families closer. Marianne Svanberg, 88, a Swede, suffered a massive stroke while visiting her granddaughter Kim Gagne in Santa Rosa, Calif., in January, setting off a bitter generational row between Svanberg's daughters and granddaughters about whether to put her on a feeding tube. At one point, recalls Gagne, 40, "my mother and I had a big blowup, right there in front of the doctor." The granddaughters prevailed, and a tube was inserted, but Svanberg's condition worsened. She died on Feb. 19, leaving a family that was mournful, says Gagne, but knit tighter...
...allies and keep current members of his fractious coalition government onside. Take the anti-immigrant Northern League, which got less than 4% of the vote in 2001 parliamentary elections. The League's bombastic founder, Umberto Bossi, who's just returned to the fray a year after suffering a stroke, pulled his top lieutenant from his post as Reform Minister to protest what he sees as the government's lukewarm commitment to giving more autonomy to Italy's regions. Berlusconi quickly vowed that regionalization reforms would go ahead. Since returning to office in 2001, Berlusconi has been a master coalition-builder...
Daniel Kessler remained the only shadow dancing in the musical darkness—body pulsing with each stroke on his guitar as he meandered around the stage...
Using a slightly different approach, Dr. Alvaro Pascual-Leone at Harvard Medical School is beginning to see improvements in his stroke patients' speech. Instead of boosting activity in the compensating areas of the brain, Pascual-Leone is trying to disrupt the neural pathways that block recovery. "What the brain tries to do as a first-line response is to shut down activity in damaged areas," he explains. That gives the neurons that are only slightly damaged a chance to recover before coming back online. But in some stroke patients, the inhibitory network never lets up. By weakening those neurons with...