A job that changed me: At 14 I was a basketball musician. If someone missed a shot, I’d drop in a ‘du-ba-dum’ | Australian lifestyle

Music came to me very early on. I’m told that as a baby I would fall asleep to opera – arias would stop me crying. By age six I was enrolled at the local conservatory of music in Athens, learning classical guitar and moving, quite seriously, through music theory and the fundamentals. By my teens,…

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Why Is Hollywood Missing from Cannes?

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Hollywood won’t be making it to Cannes this year. The world’s most important film festival kicks off on May 12 with a lineup of new movies from some of the most acclaimed filmmakers in global arthouse cinema—Pedro Almodovar, Asghar Farhadi, Pawel Pawlikowski, Cristian Mungiu—but not a single film from a US major studio. There’ll be no red carpet spectacle to rival last year’s…

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Why Dengue Fever in Adults Can Turn Serious

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – The Chair of the Adult Immunization Task Force of the Indonesian Association of Internal Medicine Physicians (PAPDI), Sukamto Koesnoe, emphasizes that dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) also has a significant impact on the adult age group, especially the productive age. “Dengue is often considered a disease that mainly affects children, whereas in the adult age…

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