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...passages of sketchy, indeterminate form. This was the technique that Tintoretto above all made his own. Thirty years younger than Titian, the son of a dyer - hence the name - Tintoretto was the only one of the Big Three born in Venice. He very briefly apprenticed with Titian but was driven out of the workshop, according to some sources, because Titian was jealous of Tintoretto's evident gifts. For whatever reason there was bad blood between them ever after, and there ensued many instances when one sought to block the other from getting work or to use a highly visible public...
...money. Individual spending on pharmaceuticals rose as a result, and experts argue that profits sometimes drive what doctors prescribe. "When drugs take up 50% of health expenditures - two times more than other countries - there is a real problem with cost, access and appropriate use of drugs which is often driven by the profits gained from over-prescription," says Dr. Lincoln Chen, president of the China Medical Board, a U.S.-based foundation that promotes health care in Asia...
...Afghanistan. Together with four other countries - Sri Lanka, Chad, Iraq and Pakistan - they make up three-quarters of the 270 attacks against aid workers recorded last year. That's hardly a surprise to big international aid organizations, whose workers in those places remained long after the risks had driven out almost all other Westerners. (See pictures of the perils of childbirth in Afghanistan...
...sharp increase in the number of attacks over the past few years has jolted aid officials, some of whom are wondering whether they might soon be driven out of conflict areas altogether. "Vast parts of Sudan, Somalia and Afghanistan are without humanitarian assistance because it has become too dangerous to operate there," says Peter Buth of the emergency team of Médicins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Holland. "It is incredibly frustrating." The surge in attacks, says the ODI report, "highlights the dearth of viable options to keep staff secure in the most volatile contexts, where humanitarian...
...Bashir - its first for a sitting head of state. Enraged at what he claimed was a Western attack on his presidency, Bashir expelled 13 aid organizations operating in conflict-ravaged Darfur in Western Sudan, perhaps the world's most complex humanitarian disaster at the moment, with millions dead or driven from their homes. MSF Belgium was permitted to stay in the area, but their staff, more isolated after the explusions, found themselves more vulnerable to attack. (The kidnapped aid workers, who included an Italian doctor, a Canadian nurse and a French coordinator, were freed after three days.) "In Darfur, kidnappings...