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...there is some hesitation to squarely blame authorities for not investing enough in basic infrastructures used primarily by working class people-like the subway-while the city spends handsomely in eye-catching projects like next year's yachting America's Cup, a state of the art cultural and science theme park, or the papal visit. "I've been driving [trains] over that section for 19 years," Trigo, the union member, told TIME, "and nothing like this had ever happened before." The regional government says, and the unions acknowledge, that 129 million euros have been invested in the last few years...
...Above all, amid the romance and playfulness of the love affair and the artworks born of it, the 350 works on display here capture the fecundity of Picasso, and give an insight into the mechanics of genius. Here are the studies obsessively reworking an idea or theme, many of them threading though the painter's long life: classical mythology; the artist as minotaur or faun; the savage beauty of the bullfight. The same subject is painted over and over, and because Picasso dated his works precisely, the astonished visitor understands that half a wall of work is the output...
...Following Thursday's death in Orlando of a 12-year-old boy who collapsed after riding Walt Disney World's Rock 'N' Roller Coaster, the answer may finally be yes. In a scenario that will raise a cold sweat among epinephrine junkies who live for escalations in the theme-park roller coaster arms race, industry insiders are starting to predict that fear will not be the driving factor in the next generation of rides...
...Nobody's going to want to take the chance," says Steve Baker, a theme park consultant in Orlando. "The envelope's pushed as far as they're willing to push...
...History Boys” does not have one theme; its profundity lies in dealing with an eclectic but complimentary variety of issues, all of which relate to elite education. Bennett’s play addresses homosexuality, and literature’s raison d’ être; it analyzes legacies, but also the understandability of the Holocaust; it tries to define money’s role in education while addressing gender neutrality and manliness...