First reaction to news that La Scala's to stage Al Gore's power-point movie is: doesn't sound very dramatic. (No love songs - except to the planet.)
Second reaction to news: what could be more dramatic?
(There's an even chance of one billion people being short of water by 2050.)
Third reaction: it's genius to do something so obvious.
The composer of the new opera Una scomoda verità, Giorgio Battistelli (above), says that artists:
'make you see things differently, make you see things in a new light. When we see a painting by Francis Bacon or a film of Sydney Pollack, we get a very precise idea of the problems of our century'.
How the US is preparing for a potential bird flu pandemic
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As the US grapples with an ongoing bird flu outbreak in dairy cattle, the
country’s health agencies are ramping up surveillance efforts and working
to deve...
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