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Thursday, April 30, 1998
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Dali's castle paints the last muse' tale
In a small eastern Spanish village, a surrealist castle given by painter Salvador Dali to his wife and muse Gala bears testimony to one of the legendary love stories of our time. The 14th-century Gothic-Renaissance castle, decorated by Dali in his inimitable style, was a token of his lifelong passion for a woman with whose blood he painted his masterpieces.
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Cyber-species: Gorilla on on-line chat show
Is this the origin of the cyber-species? As many as 8,000 America On Line members logged on Monday night to chat with Koko, a 26-year-old western lowland gorilla. With the aide of an interpreter, Koko chatted back using sign language, though she didn't have much to say.
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Beyond belief: Naipaul extends his journey
After Salman Rushdie, another famed British author of Indian origin, V S Naipaul, has come out with a bold venture to retrace life in fundamentalist Islamic states in his just about to be released book Beyond Belief. In the book to be released soon, Naipaul retraces through a journey, life in the fundamentalist Islamic states.
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A rewarding partnership
Lichens are one of the finest examples of a partnership between two life forms. To the naked eye, a lichen appears to be a single living unit, but the microscope reveals that it is, infact, two different forms of plant life, a fungus and an alga, so closely intertwined that they appear to be one.
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