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...liked people to believe the makeup I did was real," recalls Baker, a horror-movie fan who at the age of 10 scrapped his plan to become a doctor for the dream of becoming a Hollywood makeup artist. "There was one guy I made up with this horrible burn. He went home, and his father was hysterical...
Vacation plans were put aside when he was offered Planet of the Apes. Which brings us back to Covina, on that day in 1960 when Baker caused panic by covering a neighbor boy with a fake third-degree burn. "I realized it was a pretty sick thing to do," he says. That's when little Rick turned his attention to primates. "Because of King Kong, the gorilla was the perfect Hollywood monster. I really felt it was something that I could do. So I started on this quest at a very early age." And that's how Rick Baker ended...
...last week's New England Journal of Medicine and the July issue of Cornea, represent the most dramatic successes to date of so-called stem-cell bioengineering--using the body's own master cells to make replacement tissue. Doctors have employed stem cells to grow skin grafts for burn victims and to repair cartilage in damaged knees, but the technique had never been used successfully in an organ as complex...
...steaming dal, one is forced to absorb the city's scalding brew, to let it seep under her skin and flavor her tender flesh. Mouths, nostrils become cultural portals, entry points through which the diesel fumes of a Tata bus, the bite of a roadside fried samosa and the burn of the scorching sun enter one's body and transform one's soul. Here, the ordinary becomes the extraordinary and the magnificent flows from the mundane as the unabashedly deceptive city deflowers virgin foreign flesh with a walk in the park, a ride down the street, a single...
Like others in their ancient industry, cemetery owners Brent and Tyler Cassity will bury you or burn you. But unlike your average gravediggers, they believe their most noble offering is to immortalize you. That's why their firm, based in Creve Coeur--it means Heartbreak--Mo., has the ambitious name Forever Enterprises. Besides providing the usual burial plots and cremation urns, Forever helps the living remember the dead by producing biographies of the deceased that can be viewed on touchscreen kiosks at the cemetery. That means the Cassity brothers may have found a way for people not to dodge mortality...