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...Baroque - the name derives from a word meaning imperfect pearl - theater was not limited to the stage; cathedrals, too, filled with drama and lighting effects. An ornate altarpiece, glittering Roman altar furniture, and Rubens' harrowing Descent from the Cross (1611) all demonstrate the church's use of overwhelming ornament to tug at emotions. (See 10 things to do in London...
...goodwill. The WHA is a relatively low-risk international body for China to allow Taiwan to enter, as it is a health body, without strong political implications that could allow Taiwan to be treated as an independent nation. Taiwan has been invited to participate under the agreed upon name "Chinese Taipei" - the same name Taiwan uses for its Olympic team. To health officials in Taiwan, the invitation did not come a moment too soon. The swine flu is expected to be the focus of the May 18-27 meeting in Geneva. "We will now be able to get firsthand information...
...plans to put politically inexperienced, easy-on-the-eyes young women on the ballot for the European Parliament elections in June. "Somebody has written that this is all for the entertainment of the emperor," she told the ANSA news service. "I agree. [It] is shameless trash, all in the name of power." Lario said that she and the three grown children she has with Berlusconi "are victims and not accomplices in this situation. We must bear it, and it causes us to suffer...
...name was Adela Maria Gutierrez and she was 39 when she died, the first known fatality from the virus that swept through Mexico and into the rest of the world. A month before she took ill, she had just found temporary work, a government pollster job that sent her from door to door in the outskirts of Oaxaca, the city where she lived with her husband, a welder, and their three daughters, ages 21, 17 and 10. Her mother-in-law, whose house she lived in, says Adela worked very hard "from 8 in the morning until 11 at night...
...April 2, Adela, who had diabetes, said she felt tired, cold, feverish. She suffered from diarrhea."We thought it was a normal cold," says her husband Jose Luis (who does not want his last name used). "We do not have Social Security or Seguro Popular [public insurance], so we went to a private doctor [on April 5]. She treated [Adela], and we paid her and bought the medicines." The physician said Adela had a throat infection and prescribed amoxicillin and Amboxal. But Adela did not get better. On April 7, she went back to the doctor by herself...