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3.NEW YORK ART
Jiang Hu:
Contemporary Chinese Art.
6.BUSINESS NYSE in $21bn Euronext merger bid. The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has unveiled plans to merge with the pan-European Euronext exchange. The proposed move would create a transatlantic stock market giant worth 16bn euros ($21bn; £11bn). Under the terms of the deal, each NYSE share would be converted into one share of common stock in the merged company, which would be renamed NYSE Euronext. Top law firm faces fraud charges. One of the US's biggest law firms has been indicted by a federal grand jury - accused of paying people who agreed to be plaintiffs in class action cases. US shares fall as Europe rebounds . US stocks closed down on Tuesday after initially looking likely to follow the European trend and bounce back. Having recorded its worst finish in six months, the Nasdaq lost another 0.62% and the Dow Jones dropped 0.24%. European markets soared following the recent falls... 7.ENTERTAINMENT
Stones postpone European concerts. The Rolling Stones have postponed the first 15 dates of their European tour after Keith Richards's brain surgery. The rock legends will reschedule the gigs in countries including Spain, Belgium, Russia, France and Italy.
Lennox was described as having "one of the finest musical voices". Soul singer is new American Idol. Taylor Hicks has won the coveted title of American Idol 2006 in the hit US TV talent show. Jolie photographer arrested again. A South African photographer has been arrested for the second time in a week while trying to take pictures of actress Angelina Jolie in Namibia.  
Folk singer Baez in tree protest . Baez sang We Shall Overcome from the branches of the Walnut tree. She as joined a tree-top protest over the planned demolition of a community garden in south Los Angeles.
 Tunstall single tops Ivor awards. Singer-songwriter KT Tunstall has won the prestigious best song at the Ivor Novello Awards for her 2005 hit Suddenly I See. James Blunt picked up two awards for most performed song and international hit of the year for You're Beautiful. Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett of Gorillaz were named Songwriters of the Year at the awards ceremony in London. Kaiser Chiefs' Employment won best album.
11.CELEBRITIES & NEWSMAKERS
Actress Halle Berry drew large crowds in Cannes when she attended the premiere of her new X-Men film. X-Men III, subtitled The Last Stand, will be the finale of the series, said Director Brett Ratner. "That doesn't mean there won't be a spin-off," he said, suggesting future films would focus on solitary characters from the X-Men comic books.
13.HEALTH IN NEW YORK 21 DAYS INTO NICOTINE PATCH GIVEAWAY FEWER THAN 8,000 PATCHES REMAIN. IN NEW YORK, ASTHMA AND ALLERGIES HAVE NEARLY DOUBLED IN THE PAST WEEK. NY’ers with Frequent Asthma Should Talk to their Doctor about Inhaled Medicine to Prevent Asthma Attacks. New York City Health and Hospitals Vows to Keep Patient Immigrant Status Confidential 15.HEALTHY LIVING  Sleeping
may help keep you slim. Not sleeping appears to be bad
news.A good night's sleep may not just leave you feeling refreshed - it may also help to you keep trim. Researchers from Ohio's Case Western Reserve University, followed nearly 70,000 women for 16 years. They found women who slept five or fewer hours a night were a third more likely to put on at least 33lbs (15kg) than sound sleepers during that time. Details were presented to the American Thoracic Society International Conference in San Diego.
Drinking alcohol every day protects against heart disease in men but not in women, Danish research shows. A study of 50,000 people found that men who drank daily had a 41% reduced risk of coronary heart disease compared with a 7% drop in men who drank once a week. In women, the risk of heart disease fell by a third with a weekly drink but did not fall further in daily drinkers 16.SOCIAL ISSUES
Girls from broken homes may grow up to be less attractive, research published by the Royal Society shows. Women whose parents had a good relationship were found to be significantly more attractive than women whose parents had separated. Image of Tom Cruise, altered to look more feminine on the left and masculine on the right. Men with feminine faces will be luckier in love as most women are attracted to them rather than masculine men, Liverpool University scientists say.
17. HEALTH, BEAUTY AND SEX APPEALMasculine men 'are healthier'. Men who sport chiseled jaws and classic "masculine" facial features are actually healthier than their less manly peers, researchers suggest. And women who choose them may do so because they are instinctively looking for a healthier mate, they say. However, Australian researchers found that although adolescent males with more masculine faces had better health, they were not necessarily seen as more attractive. Right name 'improves sex appeal'. The difference between who is sexy and who is not may all be in their name. The most important factor is the type of vowel sound within a person's name. IS YOUR NAME SEXY OR UNSEXY? Women with front vowel sounds, such as Kate, Emma or Elizabeth were considered less attractive.
IS YOUR NAME WORKING FOR YOU OR AGAINST
YOU?
DO YOU HAVE A GOOD
NAME?
20.WOMEN, RELATIONS AND MATES.
Women sniff out ideal mates. Researchers have come up with hard evidence that what women really want from a mate is somebody who reminds them of their father. They have discovered that women sniff out men whose body odor is similar to that of their fathers. The theory is that a man who smells similar to a woman's father is likely to have a compatible immune system. The nature odors that all humans produce are called pheromones...
Chemical signals bypass the thought process. A gene that could explain how humans pick up powerful chemical signals called pheromones may have been pinpointed for the first time. The discovery promises to give scientists a new understanding of our basic instincts.
21.LEADERS: THE MAGNIFICENT 13 MEN OF OUR TIME
In other words, they are the most powerful, influential, brilliant, well-known, charitable and unforgettable figures of our time, and nobody would dream or dare to say no to them. This is what approximately 300,000 persons from around the globe think about our 13 living men and women of power and excellence of our century . The London Monthly Herald and New York Monthly Herald conducted an international survey/poll on the most admired and brilliant personalities of our time in 85 countries in the eastern and western hemispheres.
32.The glamorous actress and Hollywood 1940 Screen Goddess, Hedy Lamarr invented the Spread Spectrum: Torpedoes Guiding and Anti-Guiding Communication System. Who would have guessed that a glamorous movie goddess of the 1940's would create a communications system that was decades ahead of its time and is only now coming into widespread use?
36.Hypatia of Alexandria (A.D. 370 – 415): A martyr to feminine intellect.Hypatia of Alexandria is the earliest woman scientist whose life is well documented; she was also the last scientist of the Golden Age of Pericles, before enlightenment gave way to the Dark Ages. Her martyrdom has had more of an impact on the history than her inventions, although the hydroscope itself—the first laboratory instrument to measure the specific gravity of liquids—was a breakthrough. Born in Alexendria in A.D. 370, Hypatia came into a rarefied intellectual world.  39.PURELY
NEW YORK:
NEW YORK'S 10 BEST
10 BEST MUSIC SPOTS. 10 BEST BARS. 10 BEST DANCE CLUBS. 10 BEST JAZZ CLUBS. 10 BEST WEEKEND BRUNCHES. 10 BEST FIRST-DATE SPOTS. 10 BEST ROMANTIC RESTAURANTS. 10 BEST CONVERSATION BARS. 10 BEST COFFEEHOUSES. 10 BEST FAMILY-FRIENDS PLACES. 41.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING BOOKS AND AUTHORS. Hardcover Fiction and Nonfiction (Last week of May-First week of June)
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42.CABARET DIVAS IN NEW YORK
Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh. The Tisch Galleries. Hatshepsut, the great female pharaoh of Egypt’s 18th Dynasty, ruled for two decades—first as
The Art of Betty Woodman
The
"Hundred Antiques" in Chinese Textiles
A Tribute to Elem Klimov and Larisa Shepitko. If Larisa Shepitko had made only The Ascent , her name would still be accorded a place of honor in annals of contemporary cinema. A work of extraordinary emotional power and spiritual resonance, the film is set in snow-covered Byelorussian landscapes during the darkest days of WWII...Maazel Conducts Mahler. Lorin Maazel conducts Mahler's First Symphony, and the Philharmonic's own Cynthia Phelps performs Berlioz's Harold in Italy. Peter Lieberson’s The World in Flower, originally scheduled to be premiered at these performances, is not complete at this time. Its premiere has been postponed until a future season...CYNTHIA PHELPS, Principal Viola. Coming from a family of musicians, Cynthia Phelps became involved with music at age four. She was much involved in her high school’s student council and cheerleading, but realized (in a career guidance class) that she really wanted to play the viola...Andrea Bocelli and the Philharmonic will perform arias from the world of Italian opera. 58.NEW YORK ARTISTS
WHAT THEY PAINT, WHAT THEY SING, AND WHAT THEY SAY. Most certainly, they are so different from the other artists across the nation. 59.ART IN BROOKLYN
Francis Guy and Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Museum: Trained as a tailor and silk dyer, Francis Guy immigrated to America from England in 1795. He spent most of the next twenty years in Baltimore, where in 1800, he added landscape painting to his repertoire of skills. Between settling in Brooklyn in 1817 or 1818 and his death in 1820, Guy painted at least five views of his neighborhood from the second-story window of his home. An artist with an entrepreneurial spirit, Guy probably sought to capitalize on both local pride (this area of Brooklyn had been incorporated as a village in 1816) and national interest in American landscape imagery. Tree of Paradise: Jewish Mosaics from the Roman Empire, at the Brooklyn Museum
61.POLITICS: USA Bush and Blair admit Iraq errors. UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George W Bush have made a stark public acknowledgement that they made mistakes in Iraq. President Bush said the biggest US error was the prison abuse scandal in Abu Ghraib, which it was now paying for. The two leaders have never admitted their mistakes in such frank terms. They also called for the international community to give its full support to the new Iraqi government. Cheney 'may testify' in leak case. US Vice-President Dick Cheney could be called to testify in the CIA leak case involving ex-chief of staff Lewis Libby, a US prosecutor said President Bush said the US would continue to work with Iran's government despite its "intransigence" but urged it to suspend enrichment to avoid international isolation. The leaders meet again on Friday after Mr. Blair's foreign policy speech at Georgetown University. In his speech, the UK leader is expected to focus on the values of democracy and reform of the post-World War II institutions, such as the UN and International Monetary Fund. 62. POLITICS: EUROPE
Pope Benedict XVI has celebrated open Mass in the centre of Warsaw, with more than 200,000 people in attendance. The pontiff arrived in Pilsudski Square in driving rain, to the cheers of sodden but resolute crowds waving the flags of Poland and the Vatican. In his sermon the German-born Pope paid tribute to his Polish mentor, John Paul II and the fruits of his papacy. Gay marchers to defy Moscow ban. Russian gay rights campaigners say they will hold a gay pride rally on Saturday despite a ban by Moscow's mayor. The organizer of Russia's first gay and lesbian festival, Nikolai Alexeyev, said that the gay activists would find an alternative route. Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov banned the march, calling it an "outrage" and nationalists plan to disrupt the event. 63.POLITICS: MIDDLE
EAST
Hamas
force leaves Gaza streets .A paramilitary security force deployed
by the ruling Palestinian party Hamas has withdrawn from the streets of
Gaza. The force has been involved in clashes with regular police and
military units since its deployment 10 days ago. Several people have been
killed in the clashes, amid mounting tension between Hamas supporters and
security men... Lebanon bomb kills Jihad leader. A Palestinian militant leader has died of his wounds, hours after a car bombing in southern Lebanese city of Sidon that also killed his brother. The bomb went off in a nearby car as they were walking in the coastal city, killing Nidal Majdoub instantly. Mahmoud Majdoub,1 leader of the Islamic Jihad group in southern Lebanon, died in hospital a few hours later. Olmert urges Palestinian action. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he is ready to negotiate peace with the Palestinians but not until Hamas rejects violence and recognizes Israel. "I extend my hand in peace to Mahmoud Abbas, the elected president of the Palestinian Authority," Mr. Olmert said in a keynote speech to the US Congress. But Israel "will not give a terrorist regime a veto over progress or allow it to take hope hostage," he said. 64-67.CAREER & WORK
CULTURE
THE WORDS YOU SHOULD NEVER USE IN YOUR JOB
APPLICATION
What
not to say in an application.
There are no "mistakes" only "valuable
lessons". Never say "never" but always mention your "achievement", is
the advice for job hunters trying to fill in application forms.
Admissions advisers and psychologists at the University of Hertfordshire
have drawn up a list of the 10 top words to make a good impression in
applications. They have also listed the 10 worst words, including "hate"
and "nothing". This advice also tells applicants not to say "mistakes"
but to mention their "valuable lessons".
Link JOB HUNTING ON THE INTERNET IS WORTHLESS. By ILIL ARBEL, PH.D. Eight years ago I was a freelance writer. For reasons I could not understand, my list of clients was getting smaller and smaller, and I felt that perhaps it was time to look for a full-time job rather than continue to struggle. I took a couple of refresher courses in computer work and looked for about a year, finally landing a job with a respected publishing house where I still work. My job hunt consisted of the usual routes. I told everyone I know that I was looking for a job, looked at all the appropriate newspapers, and put my resume on the Internet. Staff brand colleagues as 'lazy'. Dead wood" staff can be hard to work with. An overwhelming majority of bosses and employees think that some of their colleagues consistently under perform. An Investors in People survey found 75% of bosses and 80% of staff thought some colleagues were "dead wood" - and the main reason was thought to be laziness. Nearly half of employees added they worked closely wi Changing your work culture and lifestyle. An increasing number of companies are reviewing their family-friendly policies. See how you can make a difference in your workplace. What you can do. Even if you work for a company with practices that feel like they're from the 1980s (all work, no play), chances are you're surrounded by a working culture that's at least open to the idea of change.
Handling negotiations. When talking about your request with your boss, remember these tips... Unhappy workers 'at illness risk'. Even a small drop on job satisfaction can lead to burnout. Unhappy workers are more likely to become ill, according to a new study. satisfaction are most likely to encounter emotional burnout, reduced self-esteem, anxiety and depression, say researchers. Even a modest drop in job satisfaction could lead to burnout of "considerable clinical importance", the report warned.
69.THE GOODNESS OF THE EARTH. THE MET COUNCIL: CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION OF THE YEAR
74.QUEEN OF CDs. NORAH JONES: A PHENOMENON! You might think that every element of surprise has been surgically removed from the music industry, but there are things happening in 2004 that would have caused an epidemic of gobsmacked incredulity just a few years ago. 75-98. AROUND THE WORLD IN 90 PHOTOS
LIFE, CULTURE, SOCIETIES, LIFESTYLE, PEOPLE, WOMEN, MEN, GAMES, FASHION, TRADITIONS, BELIEFS, AND ART AROUND THE WORLD. HOW PEOPLE LIVE, THINK, INTERACT AND DO THINGS AROUND THE GLOBE. By Maximillien de Lafayette. Lao Tzu was the first to say "One image is worth one thousand words." And so Did Marco Polo and Vasco de Gamma after having discovered unknown parts of the world. And to depict the unpleasant character of Popes, Michelangelo and Raphael froze their portraits in illustrations and pictures, so future centuries and generations will remember those Papal characters. We see and understand our universe through photographs. 99.ONLY BY A NEW YORKER
An Essay By A New Yorker On Bush As An Idiot Kid Wins Faux Faulkner Award. Photo, left: New York author Sam Apple is shown in a photo from 2005, provided by his family. Apple deployed his own "weapons of mass description" to produce a scathing parody of the Bush administration and win the William Faulkner write-alike contest. 100.BEHIND THE CURTAINS: US SECRET TALKS
101-104.NEW YORK THEATERS & MUSICALS BROADWAY. Sneak previews.
106.MAXIMILLIEN de LAFAYETTE'S CHATS AND INTERVIEWS WITH NEW YORK'S CELEBRITIES AND DIVAS.
109-111.Robert Osborne. His confidential thoughts, craft and beliefs. Coming soon. 112.CABARET-JAZZ
118.SOCIO-POLITICAL COMMENTARIES:118.The Ongoing Conflict Between Political Islam and the West , by Magdi Khalil119.A Reply to Jimmy Carter, By Rachel Neuwirth 120.EDITORIAL by Robert Novak: "WILL BUSH HELP ISRAELI CHRISTIANS?" COMMENTS by Emanuel A. Winston
The US and UK have hailed news that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, has died in a US air strike. Zarqawi died when US planes dropped two 500lb (230kg) bombs on a site near the city of Baquba. He was identified by fingerprints, tattoos and scars. The US struck after receiving specific tip-offs from within Zarqawi's organization, officials said. US President George W Bush described the news as a severe blow to al-Qaeda and "justice" for Zarqawi.
ARTICLES WORTH REVISITING: 1-THE BEST AND THE WORST OF THE YEAR: WINNERS, LOSERS, AND TURKEYS. Read 2-Rabbi Moshe Wiener: MAN FOR ALL SEASONS. BROOKLYN FAVORITE SON. Read 3-NEW YORK'S DIVAS. A bouquet of singers from New York. A lovely and colorful choice of Divas with diverse and complex visions of their world, their crafts, their music, their lyrics, the light and the shadow that inhabit and create their musical world. Read 4-Europe's Response to the Threat of Global Terror. By Jose Maria Aznar, Former Prime Minister of Spain. Read 5-BEST HOTELS IN NEW YORK Read 6-The world's best hotels, resorts and spas. Read 7-INVADING IRAQ: THE 20 MAJOR MISTAKES OF THE WHITE HOUSE BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER THE INVASION. Why President Bush’s “American Democracy would never work in any Arab or Muslim country! Read 8-THE DOS & DON'TS IN DINING WITH A RELATIVELY EXPENSIVE JEWISH PRINCESS. How to impress her! Read 9-AMERICA'S 100 GREATEST JEWISH WOMEN OF THE YEAR. Read
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Jiang Hu, a broad survey exhibition representing the best in
contemporary Chinese art, will be on view at the Tilton Gallery from
May 23 - June 30. The exhibition features painting, sculpture, video
and photography by some of China’s most important artists working
today, including Zeng Fanzhi, Wang Guangyi, and Feng Zhengjie.
Sir
Elton vampire musical closes.
Image of Julia
Roberts, altered to look more feminine on the left and more
masculine on the right.
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regent
for, then as co-ruler with, her nephew Thutmose III (ca. 1479–1458
B.C.).
53-57.
Photo:
Winter in Brooklyn.
Tree of
Paradise: Jewish Mosaics from the Roman Empire
features twenty-one Roman-period mosaics acquired by the Brooklyn Museum
in 1905. Twelve of the mosaic panels on display were part of the sanctuary
floor of the synagogue in Hammam Lif, Tunisia (the ancient Punic city of
Naro, later the Roman Aquae Persianae), the primary subjects of which are
Creation and Paradise. The Latin inscription on the floor panels indicates
that Julia of Naro gave the floor to the community.
68.
BETWEEN IDEALISM AND PRAGMATISM.
70.MUSIC AND CDs.
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PHOTOGRAPHY:
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PERSONAL HISTORY:
Pictures of Zarqawi's body
were put on display by the US.