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...martyrs seem pallid and rubbery, but the scene has a strange intensity; even the drapery quivers with emotion and vibrates with light. There may be more mundane reasons for the wan, otherworldly look of El Greco's people: he worked in light and shade before adding layers of color that don't always overcome the underlying gray tones, and he painted from wax models rather than directly from the figure. On his death in 1614, 50 models were found among his effects. Despite disdaining anatomy, he loved the texture of fur, hair, trees and starched linen. St. Jerome as Scholar...
Armed with a photocopied map of suburban Bedford, N.H., a list of registered voters and a stack of two-sided glossy color fliers, the three students venture out on the road...
...traditional quandary for white candidates is, Do you court black voters by emphasizing "black issues," or do you treat them like all other voters? The answer is both--especially in the South, where black voters can be more conservative on social policy. "The only important color in this country anymore is green," says Gilda Cobb-Hunter, a social worker and state representative from rural Orangeburg, S.C. "Black people have the same worries that white people do: Will I have a job, will my kids go to a decent school, and can I afford to get sick?" But in South Carolina...
...distilleries and, except for changing "single-malt" to "pure-malt" on the bottle, kept the same labeling. That got some tartans in a twist. A Scottish Member of Parliament, Angus Robertson, asked Prime Minister Tony Blair to intervene to protect Scotland's heritage, and Diageo agreed to change the color of its bottle. Sales of single-malt whisky continue to rise worldwide, though the overall market is relatively flat, according to Impact Databank. In the U.S., single-malt sales have more than doubled in a decade. It's a tribute to Diageo's marketing. Will other single-malt brands...
...those that are ingested. High above the earth, a European space-agency satellite is transmitting data to L'Oreal about where global-pollution levels are strongest--so L'Oreal can adapt its moisturizers. There's even a team of people trying to figure out how to biologically trigger total color recall in human hair, potentially making hair dye a thing of the distant past...