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Clinical use of cultured skin cells began in 1982, when Gallico and colleague Nicholas E. O'Connor, instructor in surgery at the Medical School and a surgeon at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital, first used the technique to treat a massively burned patient at the Shriners Burn Institute in Boston...
...very much enjoyed "The GAPification of America" in "Left Out" of Tuesday, November 12, but I would like to point out a change in trend in the Gap's line of clothing that Mr. Connor and Mr. Plotz did not acknowledge...
Perhaps, Mr. Connor and Mr. Plotz would recognize this as the Democratization of the Thighs and surely it is. But unlike other features of the Gapification of America, this great leveling allows for true individuality--in (some) body types, not in fashion. Our bodies naturally make us individuals and the Gap is taking the lead in popularizing a line of clothing designed in sizes and shapes that reflect this. This change is part of what I hope is a departure from the cultural totalitarianism that brought us the corset and bustle, liposuction, cosmetic surgery and self-induced vomiting...
ENYA: SHEPHERD MOONS (Reprise). Gaelic music of a different sort. Enya sounds like Sinead O'Connor after an overdose of chill pills; her songs seem, at first hearing, like the ideal background for stores that sell granola and wind chimes. But hang in. Enya mixes New Age with space age and Irish mysticism, and there is supple witchery here...
HELEN MERRILL: CHRISTMAS SONG BOOK (JVC). The vocal event of the season and just possibly the best new jazz vocal album of the year. Merrill, a singer in the great tradition of June Christy and Chris Connor, comes to the Christmas party using the eloquent arrangements of Torrie Zito to bring some fresh feeling to standards (such as White Christmas) and offers up a few surprises (tunes by Claude Thornhill and Thad Jones...