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...science help shrinking violets blossom? Well, not yet. But Stanford University researchers believe they have identified a chemical key to shyness. In a study of 16 men at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Center, they found that timid types have lower levels of the brain chemical dopamine than more extroverted individuals (as measured by standardized personality tests...
...limited basis in Europe since the 1970s. Oaks, palms and eucalyptus trees, as well as indoor plants like baby's breath, can be preserved for as long as eight years. After the process, the plants look, feel and even smell like they did before. Still, they neither grow nor blossom and have no need for water or light. The sleeping plants will sell for up to four times the cost of their living counterparts...
Louis was only 49 when he died of lung cancer in 1962, and his early death made him the Thomas Chatterton of formalism, the "marvelous boy," dying just as his genius was ready to blossom. He owes his reputation to the critic Clement Greenberg, who was also his coach. It is not really true, as has often been said, that Greenberg told Louis what to paint, though he probably had more influence over this lonely, gifted and insecure man than any American critic has had over any other artist. Nevertheless, Louis' instinct for light as the primal theme of painting...
FORTUNATELY for the squeamish reader, France is also the perfume capital of the world, and as Grenouille becomes an apprentice at a renonwned parfumerie, we are introduced to the more palattable scents of orange blossom, jasmine, clove, and attar of roses...
...days after his return, Daniloff seemed both to blossom in his celebrity and to shrink from it. At a reception for him at the offices of U.S. News & World Report, cameramen beseeched him to turn in their direction rather than face his cheering colleagues. He would not. "How can I turn from my friends?" he said. Instead of taking a holiday, he decided he would rather go to Iceland to cover this weekend's minisummit. On the day that he spoke in the Rose Garden, the name Nicholas Daniloff appeared on the sign-up sheet for the trip...