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P28:Layout 1 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2016 HEALTH & SCIENCE Artist Christo in divine stunt on Italy lake BRESCIA, Italy: World-renowned artist “The Floating Piers” is one of them. First nylon designed to change tone as the sun Christo may be 80, but he boasts the energy conceived in 1970 for the River Plate delta in sets and become an intense red when wet. of a teenager: After creating umbrella forests, Argentina, the Christ-like scheme will finally “All our projects are related to physical wrapping the Reichstag and decking Central come to life on the idyllic Lake Iseo in north- sensations. I do not like computers, I do not Park in saffron, his new project will see audi- ern Italy, from June 18 to July 3. For 16 days, want to talk on the phone. I am related to ences walk on water in Italy. In more than 50 visitors will be able to walk on three kilome- things viscerally, not virtually,” said an animat- years, Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude- ters of floating pontoons across the lake, ed Christo, a lean figure topped with a shock who died in 2009 but is still associated with which will connect the islands of Monte Isola of white hair. his projects-created 22 monumental works. and San Paolo, with their picturesque ham- “Walking on very small paths covered Dozens more have been left in drawers after lets and Roman ruins, to each other and the with canvas, a very solid surface, all of a sud- permits to enact them were refused. “We mainland. Made of 200,000 recyclable poly- den you start walking on water,” said the have abandoned some, but others remained ethylene cubes linked by 200,000 giant Bulgarian-born artist with American citizen- in our hearts and minds,” Christo said in an screws, the piers will be covered with a ship, adding that the experience is some- interview with AFP. dahlia-yellow fabric made of tightly woven thing “you have to feel”. Piers and islands “Floating Piers” is the first work by Christo since 2005, when he created “The Gates” in New York’s Central Park with Jeanne-Claude, an installation of 7,500 saffron cloth arches which drew four million visitors. Forced to abandon the aquatic walkways in Argentina, then again in Japan due to permit troubles, BRESCIA, Lombardy, Italy: Bulgarian artist Christo gestures as he visits the exhi- the piers exhibition got the go-ahead in just bition “Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Water Projects. two years in Italy, thanks to the enthusiasm of local officials and inhabitants. their previous water-based works-complete tory drawings and models. The artist has two Christo and Jeanne-Claude, both born with preparatory drawings, models, photo- other projects up his sleeve, though he has June 13, 1935, brought three projects to Italy graphs and films-is being shown at the Santa run into permit trouble here too. In the first, in the 1960s and 1970s, including an installa- Giulia Museum in Brescia near Lake Iseo until thought up in 1992, he wants to suspend 10 tion on Milan’s Cathedral square in which September 18. kilometers (six miles) of silvery fabric over the they wrapped a monument to King Vittorio The display of creations since the early Colorado River in the United States. The sec- Emanuele. The couple first rose to fame for 1960s includes “Surrounded Islands”, tree- ond would see him create a 150-metre-high their eye-catching packaging of famous covered gems in Biscayne Bay in Florida that (490 feet), flat-topped pyramid out of landmarks like the Pont Neuf across the the artists hemmed with pink fabric in 1983, 410,000 multicolored oil barrels in the desert Seine in Paris in 1985 and Berlin’s Reichstag in creating a vast water lily effect. “Floating near Abu Dhabi. Conceived in 1977, “The Bulgarian artist Christo (right) visits the exhibition “Christo and Piers” comes with a price-tag of some 10 mil- Mastaba” would be the tallest project in his Jeanne-Claude, Water Projects” at Santa Giulia Museum in Brescia. 1995 — a project which took 25 years of bureaucratic wrangling to get off the ground. lion euros ($11.4 million) and is financed as career and the only one of Christo’s installa- — AFP photos An exhibition which focuses mainly on usual by Christo through the sale of prepara- tions to be permanent. — AFP Scalped: At China’s creaking hospitals, Marijuana legalization illegal ticket touts defy crackdown debate fires up in France Beijing police say over 240 scalpers detained this year PARIS: French politicians across the board sumption of cannabis by adults, though its yesterday slammed a Socialist minister’s call sale is still illegal. Cannabis use has been ille- BEIJING/SHANGHAI: As day breaks, hundreds of on them, but it’s a hard problem to cure.” The urgent operation. Cao was then told he would have to legalize marijuana, re-igniting the debate gal in France since 1970, punishable by one patients wait to see doctors in a queue that snakes spokeswoman added the hospital and its doctors to begin queuing again: this time for a hospital bed. in a country where cannabis use is common. year in prison and a 3,750-euro ($4,200) fine. around the Peking Union hospital in Beijing. Many were victims of scalpers and were not involved in “It was October by the time I got to have my opera- A day after minister for parliamentary rela- In practice, imprisonment is rare, although will wait in vain - “scalpers” like Yu Wei have already the practice. tion ... more than four months,” Cao said. “On top of tions Jean-Marie Le Guen said prohibition fines continue to be meted out. illegally bought and sold appointment tickets for that your body’s in pain - it really hurts.” had not caused drug use to fall, his own par- Despite being totally illegal, some 17 mil- the day ahead. Yu, 32, makes a living touting the Dozens of scalpers ty called decriminalization a bad idea. lion of France’s 66 million-strong population tickets that Chinese hospitals sell in advance for A viral video earlier this year of a woman with ‘Market price’ Education Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem said they had tried cannabis. About 700,000 consultations. His tickets will get a patient in front her sick mother raging against scalpers brought a In hindsight, Cao said he wished he had gone to said a softer approach to marijuana would said they use it daily, according to France’s of a doctor in two days, he says, compared with a public outcry and calls for arrests and tough jail scalpers straight away. Doctors also appear show “we have let our guard down in the National Observatory of Drugs and Drug wait that can be up to a fortnight. sentences. Authorities have promised to intensify resigned to the practice, as wealth spreads in China fight against drugs.” Former right-wing Abuse. Some experts say France needs to do Dodging passing police patrols as part of his dai- their crackdown. But when Reuters visited hospitals and patients accept the reality that paying more prime minister Francois Fillon added his some soul searching on its drug laws. “We ly routine, Yu charges 850 yuan ($131) for a “special in Shanghai and Beijing, dozens of scalpers operat- will bring speedier treatment. “(Basic) appointment voice, saying “legalization of cannabis would have to rethink health policy on cannabis. care” appointment ticket - almost three times the ed in plain sight, loudly offering tickets for sale. A fees don’t reflect the economic value of doctors’ be an extremely permissive signal to send to We’re following a path of repression in face value. He told Reuters he keeps 200 yuan from spokesman at the Beijing city health department skills and experience,” said Wu Yuan, an eye doctor young people.” regards to addiction,” Laurent Karila, a psychi- each sale, with the rest of the profit going to hospi- said police needed to “strengthen” their efforts, and at the Peking University First Hospital in Beijing. Government spokesman Stephane Le Foll atrist and addiction expert said yesterday. tal insiders who he said help him secure the tickets. it would take some time to see any real results. “Scalpers are simply selling the doctor’s appoint- said there was no “no work, nor considera- “Young French people are the top European “The city’s upper middle class are always willing to China’s national health ministry did not immediate- ment at a price the market is prepared to pay,” Wu tion” of a possible legalisation of cannabis. Le consumers of cannabis. It is clear that it is not pay this amount or even higher - as long as they can ly respond to requests for comment. said. He said the practice was routine but that he Guen, who is also a doctor and public health working,” he added. get an appointment,” Yu said, speaking between fre- Feng Jianqi, a police officer involved in leading had no knowledge of any doctor involvement in expert, stressed Monday that “cannabis is a A bill proposing the state-controlled sale quent phone calls that he said came from would-be the crackdown on scalpers in Beijing, said the police ticket resales. very bad thing for public health, in particular and use of cannabis was shot down last April clients. In the background, other scalpers competed could not resolve the issue alone. Part of the prob- Even as China’s hospitals suffer, the broader mar- for young people.” But he said: “prohibition after failing to make much progress in the for custom, shouting out their prices.
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