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...invited to catalogue the contents of Maar's Paris apartment after her death in 1997, she found it full of souvenirs of Picasso: paintings, drawings, notes, sculptures?even a scrap of paper bearing a brown stain, under which was written, in Maar's hand, "Sang de Picasso" (Picasso's blood). They were all, in Baldassari's words, "religiously preserved...
Crossing out Al-Zarqawi's face in blood red sent a strong message. He was an embodiment of evil who deserved his fate, and your graphic statement was right on the money. Still, I bet that you received lots of protests from softhearted readers decrying the image...
WILL LEO'S FILM BREAK THE ICE? Leonardo Dicaprio is giving gem execs the jitters. He plays a diamond smuggler in The Blood Diamond, a Sierra Leone--set drama that depicts how gem sales funded African civil wars in the '90s. De Beers says it will spend $15 million to counter publicity its execs believe will hurt sales around the film's winter release. In other words, they're finally spending their profits from J. Lo's engagement rings...
...good news, then, that Lucentis will likely get its FDA stamp of approval this week. Until now no approved treatment has improved sight in patients with AMD so well. Although Lucentis can't repair the irreversible retina damage that occurs when AMD has gone untreated, it prevents the blood-vessel leakage in the back of the eye that causes damage in the first place, leaving patients with distorted, wavy vision, and eventually a gap in the center of their vision. Up to 40% (depending on the dosage) of those in Lucentis trials improved their eyesight by at least three lines...
...personal stake in the first question. Six years ago in a book I wrote called Bowling Alone, I argued that the fabric of American communities has frayed badly since the mid-1960s. I traced plummeting membership in PTAs, unions and clubs of all sorts; long-term declines in blood donations, card games and charity; and drops of 40% to 60% in dinner parties, civic meetings, family suppers, picnics and, yes, league bowling...