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...tempted to throw myself into it like a newly coronated prince into his gold coins, or at least to grab a greedy handful like Augustus Gloop in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” But instead I stand tentatively on the brink, unsure of what is allowed here. We typically see art as untouchable, and are required to keep a physical distance, if not an emotional one. I shrink back as a professor walks by. “Take one!” he says, “they’ll be replaced...
...could join the Bible study. I skimmed his profile: his interests included Jesus Christ and Texas. His favorite music list begins with Country and Christian Rock. I began to get cold feet. Then, I saw under Caleb’s religious views five words that forced me over the brink: “Christian—ask me about it!” I did ask him about it, taking his exclamation point as a sign of enthusiasm. Happily, Caleb was open to my request and my background, so the next thing I knew, I was at my first Bible...
Given the ongoing cataclysm in Iraq and an economy poised on the brink of a meltdown - not to mention the tantalizingly tabloid possibility of a Giuliani-Clinton matchup - it's hard to see how climate change will really break into the national political conversation next fall. "I have no confidence whatsoever that this is going to be a key deciding issue in who Americans vote for this election," says Ted Nordhaus, a political consultant and co-author of the new environmental book Breakthrough. "You don't see politicians making their name around climate change in Ohio, or Michigan...
...bottles were sold last year, thanks largely to the world's new rich. Russia imported 731,322 bottles in 2006--39% more than the year before. China's imports increased 50%. That demand has pushed Champagne, the beautifully austere part of northeastern France that produces this nectar, to the brink. "For 30 years the region of Champagne has always succeeded in coping with demand," Frdric Cumenal, president of the world's top brand, Mot & Chandon, said recently. "Today that's no longer the case. We will soon hit a wall...
...Center for Disease Control identifies it as the most reported bacterial STD in the U.S., but chlamydia may be on the brink of extinction. Michael N. Starnbach, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, is collaborating with a team of researchers at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia to study the immune system’s response to chlamydia. They hope this research will ultimately result in the creation of a vaccine. “I would hope that we might be able to get to the first phase...of a vaccine trial within the next three...