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...This is how Rembrandt painted angels," Vincent van Gogh wrote to Emile Bernard in 1888. "He paints a self-portrait, old, toothless, wrinkled, wearing a cotton cap, a painting from life, in a mirror ... and, why or how I cannot tell ... Rembrandt paints a supernatural angel with a Da Vinci smile within that old man who resembles himself." That description certainly fits the superb 1669 Rembrandt self-portrait, on loan from London's National Gallery, currently hanging beside Van Gogh's own 1888 Self-Portrait as an Artist. It is the centerpiece of "Vincent's Choice...
...attempted to assassinate the PUK's prime minister in Suleimaniya, leaving five bodyguards dead in a gun battle that coincided with a visit by U.S. officials. Interviewed in prison, the sole surviving attacker said he was working for the glory of Allah and later hanged himself with his black cotton belt. There are indications, however, that Ansar's strength may be waning. The Iranian government last November forced it to move back from the Iranian border, robbing the group of the cover of high mountains there. U.S. and Turkish military officers have investigated the front line and reportedly come away...
...left wing, led by Oskar Lafontaine, who resigned as Finance Minister during Schröder's first term due to - you guessed it - disagreement over the need for reforms. Lafontaine argues that the SPD was defeated because it was not socialist enough. "It's called neoliberalism wrapped in red cotton wool," Lafontaine wrote in the Bild tabloid. "The reason for the disaster of my party is the policy it has pursued since 1999." The left wing's position has been greatly weakened since the election, though, because the need to appease the CDU will force the SPD to adopt more...
Drawing boards at Natick currently feature chameleon-like camouflage clothes that change colors to match the environment, vests and glasses with embedded computers, and electrospun clothing. The last involves a process in which a solution is charged with high-voltage electricity and spun, like cotton candy, onto a form. Military scientists want to use the process to custom-make instant haz-mat suits by spraying sealants onto clothing. But the prospects for nonwoven, seamless civilian clothing are tantalizing...
...idea for Under Armour after eight of his football teammates at the University of Maryland landed in the hospital with heat exhaustion over a weekend of practice sessions in August 1995. Plank, a senior running back and business major, managed to avoid collapse but was bothered by his soggy cotton undershirt. The thing bunched and chafed under his pads, and when soaked with sweat, it added to the load on his back. "Being short and slow," he says, "I was looking for every ounce I could spare...