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...while those museums display the work of generations of craftsmen, the Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent Foundation, tel: (33-1) 44 31 64 00, is dedicated to the prodigious output of just one brain. With more than 5,000 chronologically ordered items of clothing (dating back to the 1960s and spanning 45 years), plus 15,000 accessories and a vast collection of the master's drawings and sketches, this 300-sq-m repository offers an experience that's a cross between window shopping and anthropological study-and it's all housed in the very building Saint Laurent worked...
Most movie directors have individual contracts with their studios; the Pixar directors are employees of the company, contributing on all studio projects. The so-called Brain Trust--Lasseter, Bird and Stanton, along with directors Lee Unkrich, Bob Peterson, Brenda Chapman, Pete Docter and Gary Rydstrom and one recent recruit, Little Miss Sunshine writer Michael Arndt--convenes regularly to spitball ideas and, Lasseter says, "help one another make these films. We're very honest...
...problems at 4 o’clock on a Friday morning—trying to remember how to complete the square within an exponent inside an integrand so you can solve the damned integral already—the two most depressing sights are, one, the inevitably ravaged state of brain break, and two, tipsy classmates coming back from lord-knows-where in search of the same non-existent bagels...
...Harvard lab takes stem cells from human embryos and substitutes them for brain cells that have died because of Parkinson’s disease. Another tries to make stem cells from skin cells...
...Crimson was in red. Red was comp requirements, then associate assignments, then random brain-stormed ideas for the department. Red was for all those great inside jokes and crazy nicknames that made me happy to be part of such a close community. Red was for the reminders to go into the office on Wednesday to steal Fifteen Minutes early because I just couldn’t wait until Thursday morning to read...