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World Trade Center Workers Twice as Likely to Have Asthma; Rates continued to rise for several years after the attacks, study shows.(Report)
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Byline: Jennifer Thomas, HealthDay Reporter
TUESDAY, Nov. 3 (HealthDay News) -- World Trade Center rescue and cleanup workers have asthma rates twice that of the general population, a new study shows.
In 2005, about 8 percent of workers and volunteers who had spent time at Ground Zero reported having an asthma attack during the previous year, compared to about 4 percent of the general population. The rate of asthma attacks among World Trade Center workers had been less than 1 percent in 2000.
Reports of problems with asthma continued to rise for ...
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Carnegie Museum of Art plays up mezzotints
Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
; ...role of mezzotints in gossip, decoration and collecting. Invented by a German amateur printmaker by the name of Ludwig von Siegen in the 17th century, mezzotints were an offshoot of the intaglio printing process whereby half-tones, which were...
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art from russia's two capitals, THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
Newspaper article from: The St. Petersburg Times (Russia)
; ...exciting as they are executed in the rare mezzotint technique - an engraving technique invented by amateur German artist Ludwig von Siegen in the 17th century. Another set, this one from the Fine Art Gallery, partly fills the void created by the absence...
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Glimpses of Stuart Britain in Prints
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...Brussels, he was initiated into the secret of the mezzotint, a technique invented in 1642 by a German soldier, Ludwig von Siegen, who did not exploit it. ''The Little Executioner,'' the portrait of a man dated 1662, inspired by a portrait...
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Touch of the Master In the Early Amateur
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...with the frenchified Stefano della Bella. Engraving was Prince Rupert's other passion. When a German officer, Ludwig von Siegen, whom Rupert met in Brussels in 1654, demonstrated the principle of mezzotint that he had invented, the prince...
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Exhibit showcases steel mills' heyday
Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
; ...deep blacks and rich tonalities capable with the process. Invented by a German amateur printmaker by the name of Ludwig von Siegen in the 17th century, mezzotints were an offshoot of the intaglio printing process whereby half-tones, which normally...
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Akira Kurosawa und seine Zeit
Magazine article from: Film - Dienst
; ...und seine Zeit Hrsg. von Nicola Glaubitz, Transcript...und Westen. Sein Oeuvre von 30 Spielfilmen bietet...Tagung an der Universitt Siegen im November 2003 ermglichte...wissenschaftlichen Sprachebene. Nicht von ungefhr heit es bereits...Kontextualisierung". K. Ludwig Pfeiffers Aufsatz ...
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