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...Caudalie Vinotherapy Spa in Bordeaux, where devotees indulge in body scrubs made from crushed Cabernet grape seeds or soak shoulder-deep in a barrel of spring water and grape extract. In the U.S., Napa Valley's Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa, below, has couples sip wine in a brass tub filled with grape-seed bubble bath and rose petals, then emerge for a massage with grape-seed body lotion. It's the seeds that purportedly contain the most powerful antioxidant properties, but for those aching to splash around in alcohol, next month New York City's Just Calm Down...
With her pupil-less eyes, brass breastplate and art-deco winged headpiece, Promethea looks like a combination of Wonder Woman and a 1930s Chrysler hood ornament. Set in a world very like our own, but slightly more technologically advanced - they have hover cars and science villains like "Jellyhead" - Promethea appears when Sophie Bangs, a poetically precocious teenager, channels her from out of the world of imagination. During the first twelve issues Promethea discovers she is the latest in a long line of Prometheas, all of whom materialize through works of an artist. Mixing typical superhero fisticuffs with darker themes...
Greenstein was born in New York City in 1909. When he was eight-years-old, his grandfather gave him a brass telescope, which ignited his obsession with stars. As a child, he built his own astronomical equipment, including a spectroscope, an instrument used to examine wavelengths of light...
...athletes. Harvard admissions does not cater to athletes any more than it caters to other standouts in any field. Ivy League schools seek a well-rounded student body—as Princeton Dean of Admissions Fred Hargadon put it, “You can’t have all brass and no strings” in your school’s band. Furthermore, student athletes in the Ivy League have demonstrated a commitment to academics simply by choosing an academically top-tier school. A football player who only really wants to play in the NFL doesn?...
...Hamid Karzai, Akbar is a man on the rise. Though he owes his position to the powerful defense minister, Mohammed Qasim Fahim, it's possible others in the defense minister's circle perceive Akbar as a political rival. As the general's staff pointed out, U.S. officers and senior brass from the International Security Assistance Force that protects Kabul are frequent visitors to his busy headquarters. It suggests a level influence likely to cause jealousy in the internecine world of Afghan military affairs. "It was someone out to get the general," an aide said, dismissing the notion of terrorist involvement...