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...that it would be home to “Guernica.” In fact, the Prado Museum houses artwork dating only until the mid-nineteenth century. Its existing collection is certainly nothing short of impressive—greatness covered every inch of the innumerable walls. In fact, the vast quantity of paintings by the old Spanish Masters, El Greco, Goya, and Velazquez, particularly struck me. El Greco’s “Crucifixion” was moving, Goya’s “Shootings of the Third of May” chilling, and Velazquez?...
...extra 13 days before he received his first substantial briefing on the U.S. effort to develop an atomic weapon--a process fast approaching its climactic stage after more than three years of colossal expense, toil and urgency. Neither Secretary of War Henry Stimson nor Leslie Groves, overseer of the vast atomic project, was in a particular hurry to get the new President's ear because they knew that all the important choices about the Bomb had already been settled. Their conversation with the President on April 25 proceeded accordingly. "Within four months we shall in all probability have completed...
...more than a thousand years their unblinking eyes have watched over the tribes that live along Papua New Guinea's vast rivers. Hacked from the necks of enemies or retrieved from the graves of ancestors, the skulls were a central part of tribal culture. No youth could call himself a man until he had defeated an enemy warrior in battle, beheaded the corpse with a cassowary-bone dagger, and displayed the head on his clan's wooden slit drum. And few family houses were complete without the skull of an ancestor, decorated with clay features, shell eyes and real hair...
...Across the island, near the vast plain of gray ash that lies at the foot of rumbling Mt. Yasur, other John Frum believers see things differently. Here, every Friday around 8 a.m., the village of Lamakara falls still as three men disappear into a hut, where they change from faded T shirts and trousers into smart tan military uniforms. They then solemnly raise the flags of the U.S., France and Australian Aborigines, with whom they feel solidarity over land rights. When chief Isaac Wan appears, other men regard him with grave respect: they believe he is John Frum's prophet...
...initiative builds on a health-insurance program Costco offers its small-business members. As 45 million Americans are unable to afford or obtain health insurance, retailers envision a vast market for individual policies. But experts are skeptical that even a giant chain like Costco can provide comprehensive, reasonably priced coverage to people who can't afford it now. Given that health-care costs are rising faster than working families' income, Costco's plan "may be a helpful Band-Aid," says E. Richard Brown, director of UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research. "But it won't stop the hemorrhaging." What...