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Itanos on Crete produced a striking dossier of inscribed Hellenistic elegiac epitaphs. The three longest echo the motifs and dialogic or antiphonal structure of sung lament or literary representations of it, and they recall the circumstances of lament performance. Readers thus created a simulacrum of lament. Each section of Exákon’s epitaph (I. Cret. III.iv.37) exhibits a lament motif, the last spoken by the deceased; the text is thus dialogic, but themes echoing across sections generate antiphony. Léon’s companion epitaphs on two surfaces (I. Cret. III.iv.39) reinforce the dialogue between an anonymous mourner in A and the deceased in B, and the echoing of A’s lament motifs in B creates antiphony. Those epitaphs allude to lament contexts, but the three brothers’ epitaph (I. Cret. III.iv.38) focuses on their hero cult. These epigrams’ separation from actual lament and verbal evocation of it can be compared to literary epigram’s evocation of absent material reality (Peter Bing’s Ergänzungsspiel).

Her son at that point had also, really his whole life, had been quite ill. But fortunately at that point in Botswana, the government was beginning to offer anti-retroviral drugs and so she was able, along with her son, to enroll in the anti-retroviral drugs program. And so I met her just about the time that she started taking the drugs, both she and her son. And the transformation really was quite remarkable. I mean when I first met her, she was rail thin and had, just looked really -- her body was just really ravaged, and Tibong was tiny. I mean he was five years old but he looked like an 18 month old. He couldn't speak. He couldn't sit up. He couldn't walk. He couldn't talk. And, really, to watch the transformation, they went through in the period of a year was amazing. And at the same time, it didn't really solve a lot of the underlying problems. CHIDEYA: You have a really interesting section where you talk about basically ethical decisions that reporters have to make. And, in essence, you say reporters, most reporters, wouldn't think anything of taking a government minister out for a fancy dinner, but they wouldn't buy mealy-meal and vegetables for a poor family. And yet they're extracting the same, if not more, amounts of information from the poor family as from the government minister. It's very easy to forget that there are real people behind it, and so I wanted to point out that they are real people, and they're not angels. They're not saints. They're ordinary people with flaws and problems, and who make mistakes just like we do, but they are real people.

Hey, it's harder than it looks. See for yourself during the Alameda Free Library Haiku Contest, during which Alamedans are encouraged to submit haiku poems with visual interpretation, including drawings, paintings and collages.

Shinya Itano collapsed near a staircase at Oita's Big Eye Stadium and was found by a doctor attending the game as a spectator. The doctor, whose name was not released, provided emergency heart massage before Itano was taken to a nearby hospital. Eduardo Velasquez was stabbed in the upper chest at his home Saturday night, Lexington County Sheriff James R. Metts said. Velasquez died shortly after family members brought him to the Lexington County Medical Center.

Advertisements are appearing in student newspapers at some top U.S. universities offering $50,000 for a bright, tall woman willing to donate an egg to an infertile couple.

NOTHING TOPS the energy and connection of a live performance. The same holds for live poetry readings, says Patti Itano of the Alameda Free Library. \"A poetry reading is much like the experience of attending a concert or a play,\" says Itano. \"The experience is unmediated by TV, radio, Internet or cell phones. You're pushing that stuff away and getting to the essential experience, author-to- listener. You slow down and give it your full attention.\" Poetry newcomers and veterans can hear, see and feel the energy themselves at a poetry reading Feb. 5, 7 p.m., at the Interim Main Library, 2200-A Central Ave. The featured poets, Forrest Hamer and Tricia Caspers, offer an interesting contrast, says Itano. Hamer has many published works while Caspers is seen as the up-and-coming poet. Their styles also differ. \"Tricia has a somewhat edgier feeling in her poetry. But there's a great personal feeling you get with Forrest from his refined ability to get in touch with individual moments, both present and past, and turn them into a poem,\" says Itano.

EJECTION REPORT IS IN: A referee's report regarding the ejection of Portugal's Joao Pinto against South Korea was submitted, but FIFA officials would not say if it included charges he punched the referee. Argentine referee Angel Sanchez said Pinto punched him after the player was shown a red card for a tackle from behind. South Korea won the game 1-0, eliminating Portugal. A Portuguese soccer official said Pinto did not punch the referee. \"No one saw Joao Pinto punch anyone,\" League of Clubs president Valentim Loureiro said.

Nicholas Serota, director of London's Tate Modern art gallery, says his \"sublimely beautiful paintings\" often carried a \"tough message about society and its values\" and were enormously influential on younger generations of artists. [Harvey Itano] and his colleagues were able to show that the sickling was caused by a mutation in a single amino acid that was part of the structure of hemoglobin. Their 1949 paper in the journal Science, \"Sickle Cell Anemia: A Molecular Disease,\" was recognized as the first solid proof of the existence of a \"molecular disease,\" a disease caused by a subtle alteration in a molecule necessary for life. [Fred Plum] and Dr. Byron Jennett, a neurosurgeon in Glasgow, coined the term \"persistent vegetative state\" in the 1970s; Plum alone coined the term \"locked-in syndrome.\" \"In persistent vegetative state, patients look conscious but are unconscious,\" said Dr. Jerome B. Posner, who was Plum's professional partner for more than 40 years. \"In the locked-in state, patients look unconscious but are conscious.\"

Matson and Jabr provide an excerpt from Accurate Measurement of Time, an article by Wayne M. Itano and Norman F. Ramsey that won the Nobel Prize in 1989. New technologies, relying on the trapping and cooling of atoms and ions, offer every reason to believe that clocks can be 1,000 times more precise than existing ones. One of the most promising depends on the resonance frequency of trapped, electrically charged ions. Trapped ions can be suspended in a vacuum so that they are almost perfectly isolated from disturbing influences. Hence, they don't suffer collisions with other particles or with the walls of the chamber.