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► SCIENCE WORLD REPORT 17 April 2013:Aerobics Prevent Brain Damage Caused by Heavy Alcohol Drinking
► SHOWBIZSPY : Anne Hathaway to Ditch Her Dog? ANNE Hathaway might be…. heartless!
► US MAGAZINE 19 April2013 : Sandra Bullock Reaches Out to Boston Residents Amid Marathon Bombing, Manhunt
► SPACE 19 April 2013 : World's Oldest Spacewalker: Russian Cosmonaut Makes Space History at 59
► BOSTON MARATHON BLAST
■ HUFFINGTON POST 20 April 2013 : Boston Marathon Suspects Appear In Photos Taken During Race (PHOTOS)► Liz Murray spent most of her time from one conference to another conference. She was often in the forum with the most inspiring and influential people such as Toni Blair, Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey and the Dalai Lama. She always talked about faith, perseverance and the importance of realizing the ideals. Liz devoting herself to helping homeless youth to reach education in order to improve their lives. Maybe this is a story which is hard to believe, how a beautiful woman who often gets the media spotlight once stranded on the streets. - "Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard"
■ BOSTON GLOBE 20 April2013 : Cheers and jubilation follow apprehension of second suspect
■ CNN 21 April 2013 : Terror, murder charges could be filed against Boston bombing suspect. EnemyCombatan ; Alan Dershowitz
■ TELEGRAPH 20 April 2013 : Boston Marathon bombs: suspect captured - April 20 as it happened
■ YAHOONEWS 20 April2013 : Obama: Boston capture closes out a 'tough week'
■ TELEGRAPH 20 April 2013 :: Barack Obama: Boston Marathon bombings victims' families deserve answers
► Russian art in the realm of socialism. Often referred to as "Soviet Pop Art", Sots Art (short for Socialist Art) originated in the Soviet Union in the early 1970s as a reaction against the official aesthetic doctrine of the state—"Socialist Realism". Socialist Realism was marked by reverential depictions of workers, peasants living happily in their communes, and a young, fit Joseph Stalin. Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, inventors of the term “Sots Art”, worked in advertising and were frequently employed to use Socialist Realist aesthetics in their ads and brochures. In the winter of 1972, Komar and Melamid were putting together a design for the Young Pioneers' upcoming summer camp session. While putting together the signs, which were supposed to convey the strong ideological piety of the Pioneers, Komar and Melamid entertained themselves by using the Socialist Realism tropes they were employing but filling in the content with people they knew, such as their wives and even themselves. Komar and Melamid continued tweaking well-known Soviet symbols and icons, often replacing Vladimir Lenin and Stalin’s portraits with their own, and signing famous Soviet slogans and catch-phrases with their own autographs. According to Arthur Danto, Sots Art's attack on official styles is similar in intent to American pop art and German capitalist realism.
■ SOTS ART GALLERY► Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV)
■ NEWMUSEUM - Exhibition: "Sots Art"
■ ARTISTS
*Lidiya Masterkova
* Vladimir Nemukhin
* Ernst Neizvestny
* Oleg Tselkov
* Zoya Frolova || WEBSITE
* Vitaly Komar || WEBSITE
* Vyacheslav Kalinin
* Mihail Chemiakin
* Leonid Sokov || WEBSITE
■ Soviet Nonconformist Art - Kolodzei Art Foundation and Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art
► SCIENCE DAILY 10 April 2013 : Protected Wildlife Areas Are 'Welcome Mats' for UK's Bird Newcomers — A new study by scientists at the University of York and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) shows that bird species which have colonised the UK in recent decades breed initially almost exclusively in nature reserves and other areas specially protected for wildlife.
► NEWSCIENTIST 17 April 2013 : Faint flashes reveal moment a black hole is born
► SCIENCE DAILY 17 April 2013 : Gene Regulates Heart's Ability to Regenerate After Injuries
► SCIENCE MAG 17 APril 2013 : ScienceShot: Iceman Had Bad Teeth || SCIENCE DAILY 9 April 2013 : Neolithic Iceman Ötzi Had Bad Teeth: Periodontitis, Tooth Decay, Accident-Related Dental Damage in Ice Mummy
► NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE : An exclusive look at bonobos - Photograph by Christian Ziegler
► Esciencenews 9 April 2013 : Niumbaha Superba: New Genus Of Bat Identified In South Sudan
► NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DAILY NEWS 18 April 2013 : Hobbit's Brain Size Holds Clues About Its Ancestor. A new study supports the idea that the 'hobbit' was a result of island dwarfism.
► Vitaly Komar speaks at Columbus College of Art & Design. In conjunction with the exhibiton Prophets of Deceit curated by Magali Arriola, Vitaly Komar speaks at CCAD. || Bureau for Open Culture
► The Magic of the Dinka. Pilot film
► Samburu people
► Cashing in on Cattle - Kotido, Uganda
► Tanzania Calling
► Surviving Boston bombing suspect awaits charges
By Ben Berkowitz and Ross Kerber - BOSTON - Investigators were seeking a motive for the Boston Marathon bombings and whether others were involved as they awaited a chance on Sunday to interview the surviving ethnic Chechen suspect.
* Boston bomb suspect's defense will likely focus on his youth
* Flight of Boston Marathon bombing suspects ended in mayhem
* Boston suspect was under FBI surveillance, mother says
* Boston bombings: a chance for U.S.- Russia cooperation
► Analysis: Rough start to post-Chavez era augurs badly for Venezuela
► Earthquake kills 157, injures 5,700 in China's Sichuan || ► Rescuers struggle to reach China quake zone as toll climbs
► Photographers Blog : Who said farming can't be fun? Hohenzell, Austria - By Leonhard Foeger
► French photographer makes it big in Berlin. French artist JR has transposed his giant photographic portraits of elderly people on to the fronts of buildings in Berlin, part of his "Lines of the City" project which he has already exhibited on walls in Los Angeles, Cartagena, Shanghai and Cuba.
► French photographer makes it big in Berlin. French artist JR has transposed his giant photographic portraits of elderly people on to the fronts of buildings in Berlin, part of his "Lines of the City" project which he has already exhibited on walls in Los Angeles, Cartagena, Shanghai and Cuba.
► Gun control failure looms over Obama's second term. Obama's failure to pass gun control measures in the wake of the Newtown shooting will be a dark spot on the president's legacy -- and has some wondering just how much he can get done in his last years as commander in chief.
► Greek bees holding their own...for the moment
► Daydreaming while driving more dangerous than texting, study claims
► FINANCE : Driving: Another Thing Spouses Lie about
► HEALTH : The Safest (and Cheapest) Cholesterol Treatment
► PHOTOS of THE DAY
► Listening Post - Margaret Thatcher's final call. 'As divisive in death as she was in office' is a phrase that has frequently been repeated in the British media since former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's death on April 8. And nowhere was that more true than in their own coverage.
Depending on where Britons get their news, Thatcher was either an 'Iron Lady' who rescued the UK and modernised its economy, or an elitist who looked down at the working classes and crippled British industry.Britain's right-leaning press, many of which are owned by key Thatcher ally Rupert Murdoch, stood in her favour while the liberal press seized on the opportunity to criticise her policies and blame her for some of Britain's current problems.
To discuss the media legacy of Margaret Thatcher we are joined by: the Guardian's Simon Jenkins; Peter Oborne from the Daily Telegraph; journalist Maggie Brown; and James Curran, a professor of communications at London's Goldsmith's university.
► Inside Story Americas - Efrain Rios Montt - Justice in limbo.There has been much anger and grief expressed after the genocide trial of Guatemala's former US-backed dictator was suspended. Just days before a criminal court was due to issue a verdict in the trial of Efrain Rios Montt, an appeals court halted all proceedings. The 86-year-old former general is accused of presiding over the killing of more than 1,700 Mayans in the Ixil region after taking power in a US-backed military coup in 1982. So, what is at stake in the prosecution of Efrain Rios Montt? For more on this case Shihab Rattansi is joined by guests: Kathryn Johnson, the development and advocacy co-ordinator for the Guatemala Human Rights Commission USA; and Paul Seils, the vice president and general counsel at the International Center for Transitional Justice.
► Inside Story - A new low for Pervez Musharraf. The man who once ruled Pakistan now finds himself a prisoner in his own home. Pervez Musharraf's gamble to make a political comeback, after years of living in exile, has gone spectacularly wrong. Musharraf returned to Pakistan last month to compete in elections to, in his words "save Pakistan". But he has been disqualified from participating, there has been no hero's welcome, and no mass show of support. He has been humbled time and again and has now hit a new low.
Police arrested him during the night, took him before a magistrate, who ordered that he be placed in custody for two days. He was taken back to his home in Islamabad and was essentially put under house arrest. So, why would Musharraf return to Pakistan? And is revenge playing a part in the judicial action that has been brought against him? To discuss this, Inside Story with presenter Mike Hanna is joined by guests: Zahid Ebrahim, a lawyer and advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan; Makhdoom Babar, president and editor-in-chief of the English publication, The Daily Mail Pakistan; and Talat Masood, a former military general of the Pakistani Army.
► Counting the Cost: Gold: going for broke. We look at the fallout of dipping gold prices, a cola war in Thailand and the fiscal issues bubbling in Egypt. We talk to John Greeve, the managing director of miner Mutiny Gold from the capital of Western Australia, Perth; International Airlines' Willie Walsh and Pragrom Prathoomboorn a Thai business analyst.
► South2North - Human rights at a crossroads. This week on South2North we talk to Navi Pillay, the "moral conscious" of the United Nations, about the current state of human rights in the world. Governments around the world are obligated by law to protect these and other fundamental freedoms. But what happens when governments don't comply? Who decides which rights are more important than others?
Pillay grapples with these dilemmas in her daily work as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. She has spent more than four decades dealing with the darker sides of humanity, including eight years on the International Criminal Tribunal in Rwanda after the genocide, and five years as a judge at the International Criminal Court. Pillay comments on current issues in Syria and Guantanamo Bay, as well as the humanitarian crisis in North Korea.
► Italy re-elects Napolitano. After two months of political deadlock, Italy finally has a new president. Giorgio Napolitano has been re-elected as president for a second term. The 87-year-old was voted in by an overwhelming majority. He has previously said he would not stand as a candidate, but changed his mind in an effort to restore political stability to the country. Al Jazeera's Claudio Lavanga reports from Rome.
► The World in Focus: The Best Pictures of the Week
► The Boy Scouts, 1971: Photos From an Era of Change
► The Queen and 2,000 Others Attend Margaret Thatcher's Funeral
Gold Coast, Australia ▬ Surf boat competitors practice prior to the start of Day 3 of the 2013 Australian National Surf Lifesaving Titles. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Matt Roberts / Getty Images
GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 21: Lachlan Tame of Avoca Beach SLSC wins the Open Men's Single Ski during the 2013 Australian National Surf Lifesaving Titles on April 21, 2013 on the Gold Coast, Australia. (Photo by Matt Roberts/Getty Images)
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A huge red ball is installed on the Simone de Beauvoir's bridge as part of the RedBall Project by artist Kurt Perschke in Paris April 20, 2013. The RedBall Project is touring Paris from April 18 to 28, changing its location each day. (REUTERS/Charles Platiau)
SWAT teams enter a suburban neighbourhood to search an apartment for the remaining suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings in Watertown, Massachusetts on April 19, 2013. Two Boston bomb suspects were named as brothers, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, and his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, a U.S. national security official said on Friday. The official said the older brother died in a shootout with police and the younger one was being sought in a house-to-house search for in the Boston suburb of Watertown. (REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi)
A model presents a hairstyle during the 7th international festival of hairdressing art, fashion and design called "Crystal Angel" in Kiev on April 18, 2013. (REUTERS/Gleb Garanich)
A huge red ball is installed on the Simone de Beauvoir's bridge as part of the RedBall Project by artist Kurt Perschke in Paris April 20, 2013. The RedBall Project is touring Paris from April 18 to 28, changing its location each day. (REUTERS/Charles Platiau)
SWAT teams enter a suburban neighbourhood to search an apartment for the remaining suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings in Watertown, Massachusetts on April 19, 2013. Two Boston bomb suspects were named as brothers, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, and his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, a U.S. national security official said on Friday. The official said the older brother died in a shootout with police and the younger one was being sought in a house-to-house search for in the Boston suburb of Watertown. (REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi)
A model presents a hairstyle during the 7th international festival of hairdressing art, fashion and design called "Crystal Angel" in Kiev on April 18, 2013. (REUTERS/Gleb Garanich)
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