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Living filter: do houseplants really improve indoor air?(Brief Article)
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To lower stress, many physicians recommend a relaxing hobby like gardening. But cultivating plants indoors may also lower the risk of asthma, allergies and "sick building syndrome."
The Environmental Protection Agency cites indoor air pollution as one of the top five public health threats in America, and the main culprit in the 60 percent rise in asthma over the last decade. Now researchers are looking to houseplants for a solution to polluted indoor air.
The energy crisis of the 1970s led many Americans to superinsulate heir homes and offices against ...
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The battle of Bayreuth
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...tyrant, he built the Opera Theatre at Bayreuth, a temple for his idea of the Gesamt...semitic. Hitler worshipped there. In time Bayreuth was to become a kind of Nazi shrine...of the Third Reich the public face of Bayreuth has changed almost out of recognition...
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Analysis: Attempts to change the directorship of the Wagner festival in Bayreuth, Germany
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered
; ...directorship of the Wagner festival in Bayreuth, Germany Host: LINDA WERTHEIMER Time...host: The annual opera festival in Bayreuth, Germany, has long been considered...down. As NPR's Guy Raz reports from Bayreuth, the controversy has taken on Wagnerian...
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Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner Festival.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History
; ...and a vast literature. Whether or not Bayreuth "has always been a paradigm of German...sensibility. Frederic Spotts approaches the Bayreuth festival at the intersection of art...different readings of the Wagner oeuvre in Bayreuth. He also pauses periodically to reflect...
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Wilhelmine's Bayreuth
Magazine article from: Opera News
; ...cultural center People who arrive in Bayreuth for the first time, clutching their...country (not to say "of nowhere'), Bayreuth seems an unlikely center of culture...now, by marriage, the Margravine of Bayreuth. Certainly Wilhelmine knew how to keep...
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Ha, ha, ha; Bayreuth festival.(Klaus Schultz may become next head of Bayreuth festival)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...for Valhalla IF YOU should visit the Bayreuth festival theatre, you may be startled...Domingo and Waltraud Meier, two old Bayreuth favourites; fortissimo boos for a new...stayed home on orders of Adolf Hitler, a Bayreuth fan devoted to the children's English...
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Roll over, Wagner: Beethoven's coming and storm clouds are gathering over Bayreuth traditionalists swoon at very idea Sturm und drang for Bayreuth traditionalists at Bayreuth, traditionalists swoon at very idea of Wagner rolling over for Beethoven Roll over, Wagner: Beethoven's coming and Bayreuth may never be the same again At Bayrueth, operatic temperaments are up in arms at Wagner rolling over for Beethovena
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...glances towards the small Bavarian town of Bayreuth where a revolution threatens to engulf...Wagner dynasty battling for control of the Bayreuth festival has shocked the nation by announcing...the annual celebration of his output at Bayreuth is about much more than music. His operas...
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Bayreuth: How very Wagnerian For the purist, it is the Wagner venue. But this year, Bayreuth has been beset by controversy and feuding.
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...night of the Richard Wagner festival at Bayreuth, the townspeople of this small Bavarian...lovers to hear his operas performed at Bayreuth, in the auditorium with the acoustical...societies affiliated to the Friends of Bayreuth. Apparently an annual contribution of...
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Bayreuth's magic endures
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...1999 Still run by his descendants, Bayreuth means Richard Wagner. It's still the...to is still well-nigh impossible. Bayreuth means first and foremost Wagner's Ring...had a last opportunity to see two of Bayreuth's most celebrated and imaginative modern...
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Bayreuth's crisis.(Bayreuth music festival)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; A Wagnerian crisis of imagination BAYREUTH Opera's most venerated summer festival...visit to the Richard Wagner festival at Bayreuth in 1891. You still do, 108 years later...flood of pilgrims. So any talk of a "Bayreuth crisis" must be the nonsense that Wolfgang...
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All Wagner, All the Time.(Bayreuth festival)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Newsweek International
; ...the Richard Wagner Festival, held in Bayreuth, Germany, every August is the hottest...opera starts daily at 4 p.m. sharp. Bayreuth audiences sit, generally in formal dress...little in 125 years. Wagner also designed Bayreuth's opera house--an acoustic and dramatic...
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