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...year and caused major outbreaks between June and August in New Zealand and Australia, where at one point around 30% of school-age children were affected. It arrived in Ireland in early September and soon spread to Britain, where it has killed six children. Simultaneously it appeared in Spain, Portugal and Norway, and is now spreading across the rest of Europe. In France, a different strain, the "H3N2" variant, combined with gastroenteritis, has laid low up to 2 million people. Eleven children have died from a severe outbreak of flu in the U.S. Health authorities in Europe say the numbers...
Europe first encountered the Philippines in 1521, when Ferdinand Magellan claimed the archipelago for Spain?and ended up dead after a battle with local chieftain Lapu Lapu. Jessica Hagedorn's Dream Jungle starts with an excerpt from a contemporary account of Magellan's Philippine visit, which describes comely native women clad in nothing but thin strips of bark "before their privies," suggesting that conquest can be inspired as much by lust as God and king...
...Ariel Sharon. He deliberately provoked the current intifada in order to press the fear buttons of the Israeli people. He is now following a course than can lead to no ultimate good for Israel. It is time for an impartial and determined effort to resolve the conflict. Gil Carbajal Spain...
...visiting artist this year, Fontcuberta has brought his unique artistic eye to the Harvard campus—one that seeks to question the very nature of artistic truth. In his native Spain, Fontcuberta has pioneered a form of prank art that forges traditional artistic scenes and representations and passes them off as real, thus raising the question of what is, in fact, authentic...
...definitely more than two steps behind my teammates when I returned from Spain,” Levner wrote in an e-mail. “It is impossible to parallel what the team does on your own, especially in Europe, where people will look at you like you are insane for running streets for exercise...