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MONTHS OF COMPOSERS
February 2005
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Achille-Claude Debussy
(1862-1918)
VARIOMETER
Hello again!
V ario comes out with its third issue. We are still expecting your invaluable contributions
and feedbacks until the end of May 2005 for the fourth issue.
Vario means “to diversify, change, alter, vary; to be different” in Latin. This touches to
our very notion: Here, within the pages of Vario, you will often face an alternative reality,
various standpoints and a “different” appearance of life which is taken not “as it is” but
rather “as it might have been.” Its source is our imagination, it is our way. This may
seem as quite subjective; but if you join us, we will meet our sources. This is the very
heart of our nation, Wondiana, where trues come dream.
Well met, stranger, if you are one.
Hello friend, if you had always been...
In this issue...
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ur cover is based on Global Warming. “Are we on the verge of a major climate
shift” - a very sensitive question that the world faces recently. You will find several
aspects on this matter within our pages. Please read them carefully and do not hesitate
to do what you can do on your part. Let’s save the earth, let’s survive!
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One of the solutions that could possibly save us in the future may be the hydrogen
cells and sun in energy production. Recent developments can be found within the pages
of this issue.
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René Goscinny is the father of many comic characters such as Asterix, Lucky Luke, Le
Petit Nicolas, Iznogoud and many others. We have lost him unfortunately in 1977 due to
a heart failure during a treadmill test; but he never fails my heart with his warm stories
in which I find comfort whenever I feel unhappy ever since my childhood.
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Çatalhöyük, situated in the central part of Turkey, is an interesting place with its quality
of being remains of one of the biggest cities in the neolithic age, approximately 9000
years ago. Houses were built on top of the remains of previous generation's houses,
eventually creating a stack of buildings and debris. After the houses were abandoned,
the buildings began to erode forming a small mound in the landscape over the ages.
You can find many interesting facts about our ancestors thanks to the Friends of Çatalhöyük,
Cambridge University Archaeology Dept. and the Science Museum of Minnesota.
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Chess is one of the most significant inventions of human intelligence. At this title, Jean-
Louis Cazaux draws attention to many aspects concerning its origins and investigates its
quality of being a sport, an art, a science and a game...
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Our Guide to the Olympic Games is completed with its second part on winter olympics.
You can find brief description of branches readily available in the Winter Olympics.
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Drawing Tolkien’s Mind is the title of our newest serial started last issue. Alan Lee, is
one of the most prominent illustators of Tolkien stories who also participated in the Lord
of the Rings trilogy by the New Line Cinema as creative director.
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I hope you enjoy our new Vario; see you next issue...
— THE EDITOR
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