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Bulgarian pianist Alexis Weissenberg dies at 82 (AP)
GENEVA ? Bulgarian-born French pianist Alexis Weissenberg, whose love of music from the age of 3 saved him and his mother from a World War II concentration camp and carried him to the heights of performances with Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein, has died. He was 82.
Bulgaria's Ministry of Culture on Monday confirmed the death of Weissenberg, who was born into a Jewish family in the capital Sofia but spent most of his life abroad and became a French citizen.
"With deep regret I learned about the death of one of the greatest performers of the 20th century, piano virtuoso and world-known teacher of Bulgarian origin ? Alexis Weissenberg," Culture Minister Vezhdi Rashidov said in a condolence letter posted on the ministry's website.
Weissenberg suffered from Parkinson's disease and died Sunday in Lugano, Switzerland where his family had settled, according to Bulgarian and Swiss news reports.
An only child, Weissenberg recalled sharing "musical joys" learning piano and listening to recordings and concerts with his mother, before studying piano with a famous Bulgarian composer, Pancho Vladigerov.
When he and his mother tried to flee German-occupied Bulgaria for Turkey with faked ID and visa papers in 1941, he recalled in an essay on his website, they landed in "an improvised concentration camp" in Bulgaria for people crossing the border illegally. He said the German-guarded camp was probably intended to send people to Poland ? and extermination.
They arrived with few belongings other than a small bag, a large cardboard box, a few sandwiches and an old accordion given him as a birthday gift by a wealthy aunt. And they were lucky: After three months in the unspecified camp, a German guard who enjoyed listening to him play Schubert on the accordion helped them escape by train.
"It was the same officer who decided one chaotic day to come and fetch us hurriedly, bring us to the station, push our belongings (still the cardboard box) through the door, literally throw the accordion through the window of the compartment," he recalled.
The guard told his mother "Good luck" in German, then vanished. A half-hour later, they were over the border and no one asked for passports. The next day they arrived in Istanbul.
He said luck "sometimes produces tiny miracles" and "our unexpected piece of luck was a musical instrument, the dear old accordion."
They wound up in Israel where he performed Beethoven with the Israel Philharmonic led by Leonard Bernstein. After the war, he moved to New York to study at the Juilliard School of Music. Then, in the 1950s, he moved to Paris and became a French citizen.
In 1966, he played Tchaikovsky with the Berlin Philharmonic led by Herbert von Karajan. In later decades, he gave numerous master piano classes, and his recordings of classics by composers such as Liszt, Schumann, Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, Chopin and Brahms became well known.
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Veselin Toshkov in Sofia, Bulgaria, contributed to this report.
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Friday, January 13, 2012
Survey: Most Haiti text donors have given since (AP)
NEW YORK ? The massive earthquake that devastated Haiti two years ago prompted an outpouring of charitable donations and propelled a new way of giving ? through text messages ? into the public eye.
A new study shows that text messages are becoming a viable avenue to give and receive charitable donations, even though the amounts people give are smaller.
A nationwide campaign after the January 2010 disaster encouraged people to donate $10 to recovery efforts by texting the word "Haiti" to a number, such as 90999 for the Red Cross. The donation would be added to their monthly cellphone bill.
A survey released Thursday by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project asked the people who sent those text donations why they gave, who they are and whether they have contributed to charity since.
Only donors who agreed in advance to be contacted were included in the survey. This amounted to only about 13 percent of those who contributed to the Haiti relief effort via text, so it's possible that the people who were excluded have different attitudes.
With that caveat, here are some of the findings:
? Eighty percent of the Haiti donors did not contribute money to the relief efforts through any means other than texting.
? Most donations were the product of impulse-giving. Eighty-nine percent of the donors heard about the "Text to Haiti" campaign on TV and half of them donated right away.
? Three-quarters of the donors said they don't do a lot of extra research when donating via text message.
? The majority of those surveyed ? 56 percent ? have contributed to more recent disaster recovery efforts via text since the Haiti quake. These include the earthquake and tsunami in Japan last March and the Gulf oil spill in 2010.
? Text donors tend to be younger and more racially diverse than the people who give to charity through more traditional means.
The survey conducted in September and October by Princeton Survey Research Associates International on behalf of Pew, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the mGive Foundation, a mobile-giving nonprofit. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
The results of 863 donors randomly selected from those who agreed to participate were included in the study.
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EPA Creates Website To ID Biggest Emitters Of Greenhouse Gases
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Child leukaemia doubles near French nuclear plants: study (Reuters)
PARIS (Reuters) ? The incidence of leukemia is twice as high in children living close to French nuclear power plants as in those living elsewhere in the country, a study by French health and nuclear safety experts has found.
But the study, to be published soon in the International Journal of Cancer, fell short of establishing a causal link between the higher incidence of leukemia, a type of blood cancer, and living near nuclear power plants.
France has used nuclear power for three decades and is the most nuclear-reliant country in the world, with 75 percent of its electricity produced by 58 reactors.
The study, conducted by the French health research body INSERM, found that between 2002 and 2007, 14 children under the age of 15 living in a 5-kilometre radius of France's 19 nuclear power plants had been diagnosed with leukemia.
This is double the rate of the rest of the country, where a total of 2,753 cases were diagnosed in the same period.
"This is a result which has been checked thoroughly and which is statistically significant," said Dominique Laurier, head of the epidemiology research laboratory at France's nuclear safety research body (IRSN).
INSERM has carried out similar research with the IRSN since 1990, but has never before found a higher incidence of leukaemia
in children living near nuclear power plants.
"But we are working on numbers which are very small and results have to be analyzed with a lot of care," said Laurier, one of the authors of the study.
Laurier said the findings indicated no difference in risk between sites located by the sea or by rivers, nor according to the power capacity of the plant.
The IRSN said it recommended a more thorough study of the causes of the leukemia cases found near nuclear power stations and hoped to set up international research collaboration.
"It's a rare disease and working on a bigger scale would allow more stable results," said Laurier.
A 35-year British study published last year found no evidence that young children living near nuclear power plants had an increased risk of developing leukemia.
The research, conducted by scientists on the Committee of the Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment (COMARE), found only 20 cases of childhood leukemia within 5 km (3.1 miles) of nuclear power stations between 1969 and 2004.
The scientists said the rate was virtually the same as in areas where there were no nuclear plants.
Studies have been conducted around the world into possible links between the risk of childhood blood cancers and living near nuclear plants.
A study on Germany, published in 2007, did find a significantly increased risk, but the COMARE team said these findings were probably influenced by an unexplained leukemia cluster near a nuclear plant in Krummel, north Germany, that lasted from 1990 to 2005.
Excluding Krummel, evidence for an increased leukemia risk among young children living close to German nuclear power plants was "extremely weak," it said.
(Reporting By Muriel Boselli, Editing by Alexandria Sage and Tim Pearce)
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
Suicidal Sinead O'Connor Pleads for Psychiatric Help
Sinead O'Connor took to Twitter Wednesday to beg her fans to help her find psychiatric help. "Does anyone know a psychiatrist in Dublin or Wicklow who could urgently see me today please?" she twittered. "I'm really un-well... and in danger. I desperately need to get back on meds today."
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