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...that transsexuals can choose their official gender, but that's not the only sign that Spaniards take the idea of sexual equality further than most. Two days later, crosswalk signals in Fuenlabrada, south of Madrid, suddenly donned skirts. In an effort to promote "equality in traffic safety," the town has begun installing lights that flash up alternate male and female figures; metal signs are also being amended. "[Old] traffic signals leave half the population invisible," says local police chief José Francisco Cano. The inspiration for change came from the city of Lugo, which marked International Women...
...Gertrude, Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt, portraitist John Singer Sargent, painter John La Farge, novelist Edith Wharton and British Gothic writer Vernon Lee (the pseudonym of Violet Paget, whom novelist Henry James, himself a frequent visitor to Italy, called "the most intelligent person in Florence") all clustered in the Tuscan town...
...work, and by 1913 they had between them amassed the largest collection of Cézannes outside Russia (several of Vollard's best clients were Russian industrialists). Neither man's collection would remain intact. Fabbri plowed much of his fortune into building a Romanesque church in an earthquake-ravaged town. By 1928, he had to sell 13 Cézannes to finance a property deal. In the same year, Loeser died, leaving eight paintings to the White House...
...most part, the film continues in this cloyingly earnest vein, dedicated to telling its quasi-inspirational story with no jokes beyond the understanding of small children. (Lucky Charms cereal deserves an acting credit for its centrality to the plot.) The Farmers live in a town where everyone knows everyone’s business and the county fair is the event of the season...
...virtual, consisting of e-mail manifestos and a website which, among other things, rails against the evils of Eddie Murphy's new film Norbit. The New York City Council resolution is the movement's first victory, and now they are hatching plans to bring their task force to a town near...