Word: cottons
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...Marshmallows are bar-none their favorite things on earth.” Pinker and Goodall live in Harvard’s Cognitive Evolution Laboratory along with about 25 other monkeys named after prominent scientists and researchers. The monkeys—both endangered cotton-top tamarins and common marmosets—live a peaceful co-existence under the direction of Professor of Psychology Marc D. Hauser. Hauser, who founded the lab on the tenth floor of William James Hall, started the tradition of bestowing illustrious names on the primates. According to Cushman, this can lead to ridiculous comments...
What do jock itch, poison gas and flesh-eating bacteria have in common? Gregory Schultz, 56, thinks he has the answer. The cancer researcher turned inventor has patented a technique for chemically bonding bacteria-fighting polymers to such fabrics as gauze bandages, cotton T shirts and men's underpants. It's a technology with an unusually wide variety of uses, from underwear that doesn't stink to hospital dressings that thwart infections...
...CLOUD NINE For bed linens, Hersh raves about Cloud Nine Comforts, a new shop in Brentwood that sells its own linen-cotton line and will send someone to your house to outfit your bedroom. "This is the ultimate Los Angeles service experience. One phone call, and they'll take care of it." 310-207-1257 or cloudninecomforts.com...
...anything in Jaipur. On the ninth floor of the Panchratna tower, dealer Sunil Sethi of SK Exports flicks princess-cut and round-cut diamonds with tweezers without looking up. Every day he sees samples from about 35 brokers, who carry the stones in flat plastic boxes tucked into special cotton undervests...
...Ruffled Up Yves Saint Laurent cotton and silk blouse with jabot, $5,695 ysl.com) In this story: hair by Teddy Charles for Orlo Salon; makeup by Polly Osmond for Art Department; manicure by Roseann Singleton for Vartali Salon in New York City...