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...been spilled on the personal rivalry between Blair and Brown that it is easy to lose sight of the fact that on the big issues - the case for an open economy, a need to reform public services, an admiration of most things American - they are cut from the same cloth. "People forget that Brown was a founder of New Labour, as Blair was," says Vernon Bogdanor, professor of government at Oxford University. Any differences that emerge between the two men, Bogdanor continues, will be "ones of emphasis and style rather than anything fundamental." Cameron, for his part, has learned from...
...entrance, was thrilled to work with the variety of media her class allowed. For “Visual and Environmental Studies 123r, Post Brush,” Stinetorf silk-screened diagrams, drawings, and NASA images of constellations onto canvas, then moved to collage, adding layers of paper, cloth cut-outs, and plastic flowers to convey a depth she finds lacking in ordinary silk-screening...
...opposite, a huge white curtain catches the afternoon light coming in through the windows. It’s not made of cloth, but of white plastic, onetime Glad garbage bags, prodded, divided into two layers, and sewn together...
...With a sharp eye for the contemporary obsession with Eastern homeopathy, the weavers have dubbed their cloth "ayurvastra"-referring to the ayurvedic principles on which production is based. After cleaning, the raw yarn is coated with a natural gum, and it's then soaked in medicinal dyes prepared with pomegranate, turmeric and indigo, among others. "The idea is that immunity levels are raised when using these medicinal textiles and the body reaches a certain mental and physical equilibrium," explains Rajan, a weaver sporting one of the society's simple, hand-woven tunics...
...Before you rush off to order bolts of ayurvastra, do remember that it's still early days and more research needs to be done. But the cloth does seem to show some promise. A trial conducted by Kerala's Government Ayurveda College concluded that after using bedding, rugs and towels made from ayurvastra for one month, patients suffering from eczema, psoriasis and (curiously, because it is not a skin complaint) rheumatism showed a "marked improvement." This was sufficient to persuade the state government to give the weavers a grant of $250,000, which they're spending on a new medicinal...