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Already, the Carpenter Center’s fourth floor studio is full of transplants. Delicate flowering branches are arranged on tables. Rohny Escareño ’04-’06 uses pushpins to affix mushrooms to the studio’s hematite walls. (Stopforth jokes, “He hopes they will grow there.”) On another table sit the products of the class’ first project: balls of clay into which the class members molded blades of grass, berries, and pinecones from the site...
Forty years later, scientists know a lot more about genes and proteins and how to target microbes so that they home in on one particular kind of cell--a cancer of the ovary, for example, or a tumor in the throat. They have also learned to affix molecular tracking devices to a microbe to ensure that when let loose in the body, it doesn't deviate from its therapeutic mission...
What do they sound like? Well, Meloy’s songwriting does echo the sound of bands like Neutral Milk Hotel, Belle & Sebastian, and Robyn Hitchcock, who affix pop sensibilities on intricate, narrative lyrics. But perhaps musical reference points aren’t the best way to describe what makes Meloy’s songs so indelible. More than anything else, Meloy is like a musical version of writer/publisher Dave Eggers and much of the McSweeney’s coterie, effortlessly blending wry tongue-in-cheek humor with genuinely-felt storytelling...
When police officers do find “personal belongings” such as backpacks and personal papers, they affix stickers warning owners that their property will be discarded if not removed within 48 hours...
...designers boast fewer paying fans than do most major musicians or actors. It's the kind of trepidation that Stacey Bendet, designer of the line Alice + Olivia, has encountered since co-founding the collective Democracy in Fashion. Bendet, 26, an ardent and open Democrat, has been recruiting designers to affix politically inspired tags to items of clothing in their current collections. One side of the tag explains the group's mission, which is to "unite fashion designers, members of the retail world and consumers to raise money in support of the 2004 Democratic candidates." On the other side, designers...