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Celine Dion would be hospitalized because of her pregnancy with twins. Although she is in Miami, it is a magazine in Paris (France) that unveiled the new. It seems that both babies would be in a position to premature birth. René Angélil said that this story is false!
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If you use Gmail, you can move to having only one Web page and one address book that combines e-mail, IM-style chat, and phone.
Google is rolling out a new feature in Gmail that allows users to make free — or cheap — long-distance phone calls. Voice in Gmail lets users with a microphone or headset ring a landline or cellphone. Although the feature will be officially available only in the U.S. for now, a Google Canada spokeswoman says it may work for Canadians if their settings are set to English-US. Not all users will have access to the feature until it's fully rolled out. Google says calls to any phone in North America will be free until at least the end the year, while fees are charged for calls around the world. For example, calls to the U.K. are priced at two cents per minute for dialing a landline or 18 cents for a cellphone.
Established in 1922 in Merion, Pa., a Philadelphia suburb, the Barnes Foundation is known mainly for its art collection, one of the world's largest assemblages of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and early Modern paintings. Founded by Albert C. Barnes, a physician who made his fortune in patent medicine, the Barnes also runs a school whose curriculum centers on art appreciation; a 12-acre arboretum where horticulture is taught; and Ker-Feal, an 18th-century farmhouse in Chester, Pa., where furniture and other decorative arts are on view.
The neo-classical art galleries are renowned for the breadth of the art, 181 Renoirs, 69 Cezannes, 46 Picassos and 59 Matisses, as well as works by Soutine, Rousseau, Modigliani, Monet, Degas, van Gogh, Seurat and Manet, and the highly individual way in which they are displayed.
Paintings often ascend the walls in twos and threes, often in unusual juxtapositions chosen by Barnes himself. Barnes stipulated in the foundation's charter and bylaws that the works must always be displayed just as he arranged them.
Arguing that it was strapped for cash, the Barnes petitioned a Montgomery County, Pa., court in 2002 for permission to amend the bylaws so that it could move the collection to a new site and attract more visitors and financing. The case caused a furor in the art world, with some arguing that the site's unique environment for art-viewing could never be matched elsewhere. Three charitable foundations meanwhile agreed to help the Barnes raise millions on the condition that a judge clear the way for a move to downtown Philadelphia. In 2004, a judge ruled that the Barnes could relocate. Although construction is years into the future, the foundation has chosen the husband-and-wife architecture team Tod Williams and Billie Tsien to design a new Barnes home on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia.
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