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...Ministry of Religious Endowments, was a priceless collection of handwritten Korans (some said to be over 1,000 years old), religious manuscripts and calligraphy. "People used to come to Baghdad from all over the world--even from al-Azhar--to read these works," says National Library director Ra'ad al-Bandar. "For religious scholars across the Muslim world, this is a time of mourning...
...GRAND HOTEL DE L'OPERA This beloved city landmark has a Michelin one-star restaurant: Les Jardins de l'Opéra (tel. +33 (0) 5 61 23 07 76), where the chef is aptly named Dominique Toulousy. There's also the more relaxed atmosphere of Grand Café de l'Opéra (tel. +33 (0) 5 61 21 37 03), an after-theater institution decorated with decades of snapshots of stage and film stars...
...relish and wonderment at how things have turned out. She made her debut at the opera house in Graz in 1992 and was later hired by the State Opera in Vienna. Despite growing international fame and engagements at prestigious venues like La Scala, the Met and the Opéra Bastille in Paris, she has remained with the State Opera, where she is paid the same salary as other house singers. Onstage in Vienna, she has made a specialty of mezzo-soprano roles in Mozart operas like Le Nozze di Figaro and La Clemenza di Tito, and she performs regularly...
Prospects have improved dramatically--especially, says Cohen, "if we treat early and we treat aggressively." Today the most effective treatments for rheumatoid arthritis are combination therapies. Methotrexate, a cancer drug which has been used to treat RA for 30 years, is augmented by other drugs, including the recently developed but costly "biologics" such as etanercept (Enbrel), infliximab (Remicade) and anakinra (Kineret). These are genetically engineered versions of naturally occurring molecules that bind or block the activity of cytokines. Also in very early development are drugs designed to reduce the formation of the blood vessels that feed the tumor-like growth...
...shows include Old Masters, guitar gods and great photographers. At the Musée d'Orsay, Manet/Velázquez, The Spanish Manner in the 19th Century documents the influence of the great 17th and 18th century Spanish painters - Velázquez, Mur?llo, Zurbarán, Ribéra, Goya - on such 19th century French artists as Manet, Delacroix, Chassériau and Courbet. What the French learned from their Spanish predecessors was a gritty realism previously unknown in France's academic art world - ordinary subjects like beggars and street urchins, freely painted, with color used to sculpt volume...