The three parts of the "Nature" extravaganza are fascinating when they look at things like mating habits, but they become even more so when they explore the communication ability of these animals.
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Andy Warhol's legacy lives on in the factory of fame
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15 minutes of fame? The artist whose radical ideas galvanised the 1960s art world continues to dominate the market and permeate popular culture – 25 years after his death
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Twickenham Film Studios Goes Bankrupt
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"Twickenham Film Studios, which have been used for films as diverse as Roman Polanski's Repulsion, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and current Oscars hopeful My Week with Marilyn, are to be closed just one year ahead of the facility's centennial anniversary."...
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Monica Mason Looks Back At 54 Years With Royal Ballet
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The retiring director of British dance's flagship company remember highlights of her long career....
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Munch's Scream Could Sell For $80M At Auction
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"Sotheby's will offer the only privately owned version of Edvard Munch's haunting work The Scream at an auction in New York on May 2 where it expects to fetch over $80 million, the highest pre-sale value the auctioneer has ever put on a work of art."...
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Proposed Washington Law Would Require State To Sell Art To Fund Scholarships
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"So how broke is the state of Washington? It's so broke it could start selling off its art collection - including some masterpieces - and using the money to pay for low-income students to go to college."...
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Cormac McCarthy's Secret Life As Copy Editor
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The author of All the Pretty Horses, The Road, and No Country for Old Men edited a new biography, by his friend Lawrence M. Krauss, of physicist Richard Feynman. McCarthy's advice? Remove all exclamation points and semicolons....
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Where Women Orchestral Players Outnumber The Men: South Korea
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"Of the 105 members of Seoul Philharmonic, women account for 65 members, or 62 percent. The ratio is even higher for the Bucheon Philharmonic Orchestra, where 63 of its 74 members are women, or 85 percent." One Korean critic attributes the phenomenon to traditional Confucian gender roles....
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Osvaldo Golijov Accused Of Plagiarism In Second Work
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Last week critic Tom Manoff said that the composer's Sidereus incorporated large chunks of music from Michael Ward-Bergeman's score Barbeich; Ward-Bergeman says the borrowings were made with his cooperation. Now a Brazilian journalist says Golijov used, without attribution, a Brazilian pop sing for the second movement of his string quartet Kohelet....
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Can Society Get The Benefits Of Religion Without The Faith?
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Alain de Botton: "How did religion once enhance the spirit of community? More practically, can secular society ever recover that spirit without returning to the theological principles that were entwined with it? I, for one, believe that it is possible to reclaim our sense of community - and that we can do so, moreover, without having to build upon a religious foundation."...
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