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Collector's Cabinet, Part 2. Los Angeles's LACMA has Hearst the Collector on view. Immortalized in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, the newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst was said to have provided 25% of the art on the market in the 1920s and '30s. The LACMA collection includes 17th-century armor and tapestries, as well as Hearst's sculpture and paintings. Through Feb. 1, 2009. 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles...
...stresses that small- and medium-size businesses cannot match the high salaries offered by the casinos. The local government evidently agrees: In his annual policy address on Nov. 11, Ho announced a $1.3 billion stimulus package of infrastructure improvements, income tax cuts, and cash handouts of roughly $640 per citizen. "Anything that allows the industry some breathing room is good," says Lam. "This is a good time to rest, and to re-think policies...
...patient, a U.S. citizen living in Germany, was suffering from advanced leukemia and HIV two years ago when Huetter treated the cancer with a bone-marrow transplant at Berlin's Charité hospital. As a side experiment, he inserted the bone marrow of a donor naturally resistant to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. (Researchers have long known that about 1% of Europeans carry a genetic mutation that makes their cells resistant to HIV infection.) Bone marrow produces the cells that HIV attacks. So, the thinking went, inserting marrow that produces HIV-resistant cells might endow the patient with...
...connection to the upcoming election," Celestin Niyongabo, the Burundian ambassador to the United States, told TIME. "Burundi is a country emerging from conflict," and given potential security threats, "the police had the right to go and look at what is happening in the house of any citizen." He emphasized that Sinduhije has access to a lawyer. He could not say when the trial would be, but said he hopes "as soon as possible." He noted that Sinduhije has not been physically harmed - an assertion that Sinduhije's supporters have backed up. Burundi, the ambassador declares, remains "committed to human rights...
...thinking about this. We didn't ever set out to say, all right, you know what we're going to do? We're going to do the best f------g comic book that's ever been done. This is going to be the Citizen Kane of comics. We are going to be famous for this for the next two and a half decades. If we'd done that we would have come up with nothing...