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Last week, the U.S. government added steroidal estrogen--like the kind used in hormone-replacement therapy and birth control pills--to its list of "known human carcinogens," a catalog that also includes asbestos, tobacco and mustard gas. The Report on Carcinogens, issued every two years by the National Toxicology Program, associates steroidal estrogen with increased risk of endometrial and breast cancer, based on data from studies of HRT and birth-control pills. Still, scientists debate whether such treatments--which combine estrogen with other hormones--pose the same threat as estrogen alone. "If this concerns you, talk to your physician about...
Much of Charmbracelet follows this pattern: Carey makes vague allusions to her recent problems while musically cannibalizing her back catalog. There are a few moments when she reveals enough to make the formula interesting, as on the playful Clown, a mid-tempo revenge song that responds to Eminem's sexual innuendo with the lines, "You should've never intimated we were lovers/When you know very well we never even touched each other." But mostly Charmbracelet feels like a hedge. There are the guest rappers (Jay-Z, Cam'ron) of Carey's late '90s hits, the chipper ballads of her multiplatinum...
...this may sound, the most beautiful of them is the smallest, a tiny wooden carving--whittling, really--of the crucifixion torso, which manages to compress into its less than 1-ft.-high block the tragic pathos of his late, unfinished stone carvings, such as the Rondanini Pieta. (The catalog also compares the carving to late Titian, late Rembrandt and the late quartets of Beethoven, and not without reason...
...Justin received a catalog for Successories, the pre-eminent retailer of motivational art--posters and plaques bearing corporate bromides along the order of "Your attitude determines your altitude." The Sewells and Kersten started "bitterly laughing at how there was nothing in the catalog remotely appropriate to the situation we were in," Justin says. They started riffing on some notions for "demotivational" art. They even borrowed stock photos and ran up posters for their cubicles. "We didn't have any intention of starting a company at that point," Justin says, "because none of us had any entrepreneurial drive or self-confidence...
...this may sound, the most beautiful of them is the smallest, a tiny wooden carving - whittling, really - of the crucifixion torso, which manages to compress into its less than 30-cm-high block the tragic pathos of his late, unfinished stone carvings, such as the Rondanini Piet?. (The catalog also compares the carving to late Titian, late Rembrandt and the late quartets of Beethoven, and not without reason...