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...history. Cultural icon Russell Simmons crowned him the nation's first "hip-hop mayor" and Kilpatrick, now 37, did not try to avoid a life of excess. His first inauguration was marked with "club crawls" (he said they were intended to galvanize Detroit's disaffected youth); he wore a diamond-studded earring and flashy suits; his wife got use of a Lincoln Navigator that was leased for $25,000 by the police department. The two Detroit cops then charged Kilpatrick's bodyguards with abusing overtime and failing to report accidents involving city vehicles. Overtime abuse was never proven...
...pieces of toy jewelry in 2004, new guidelines "urged manufacturers generally to reduce the lead content of their products." Since then at least 21 million more pieces of children's jewelry--including 6 million this year alone--have been recalled because of lead-poisoning risk, ranging from $3 fake-diamond rings sold at Big Lots! to $95 Juicy Couture charm bracelets. The CPSC recommended a federal ban on lead exceeding 0.06% by weight in children's jewelry late last year; California, Illinois and the city of Baltimore have already enacted bans...
Pavé, a popular setting for diamond jewelry?the close placement of the stones maximizes the sparkle, while the typically small size of the diamonds minimizes the cost?is the latest technique designers are using (usually with crystals) to create accessories that dazzle. Giorgio Armani and Valentino have both taken a shine...
...field of HPV vaccine research is still in its earliest stages. Studies have only just begun on the safety of the vaccine in women older than 26. And, according to GlaxoSmithKline spokeswoman Liad Diamond, studying Cervarix in boys and men is "on the radar screen of the clinical development team" but there is "nothing underway right now." At Merck, clinical trials of Gardasil in males have been ongoing for about a year, and preliminary results show that "immune responses in 9- to 15-year-old boys are consistent with those found in females aged 16 to 23," according to Merck...
...Thailand but also to the uncharted interior of man's highest, most lunatic dreams. In a 46-year career of great fiction films (Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Heart of Glass; Nosferatu; Fitzcarraldo) and in a string of amazing, hallucinatory documentaries (The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, The White Diamond, Grizzly Man), Herzog, 64, has trekked into the emotional wilderness to capture on film humanity's heart of darkness, heart of hope...