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Harvard fans are used to watching captain Dante Balestracci dish out punishing blows to opposing quarterbacks in the backfield and those who are foolish enough to challenge him across the middle...
...profitable last year. Whoever takes over at BSkyB is going to face a difficult future. The company is hitting a subscriber ceiling. Its 6.8 million customers represent almost one-third of all households in the U.K.; a good portion of the rest resent the idea of pinning a satellite dish to their walls. In many areas historic-preservation laws bar the devices anyway. Add to that a nascent bbc-sponsored "free satellite" movement - in July the bbc made its satellite transmission free to anyone with a satellite receiver - plus a feisty new multichannel TV operation called Freeview (which attracted...
...Vitro Fertilization When Louise Brown was delivered in England on July 25, 1978, the test-tube-baby industry was born. Scientists had joined her parents' eggs and sperm in a Petri dish and then implanted the embryo in her mother's uterus. (Elizabeth Carr, above, was the U.S.'s first in vitro-fertilized baby.) Despite a dismal 15% success rate, the process remains the treatment of choice for infertile couples...
...culture that takes place in major cities (New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, respectively). But by living across a river or in a formerly industrial neighborhood, they find the cheaper rent and supportive, small-town feel that make working as an artist doable. "It's like this handy Petri dish of culture," says Kirsten Hively, who founded wburg.com a website about Williamsburg...
...fragrance is a revival of one of my original ones--Woman Pure. This one, Jil Sander Pure, was presented to me four weeks before it was presented to the press. They brought it out on a silver dish and said, "We thought about you the whole time." It was very emotional because they remembered what I had taught them. As for the stores, I was with the company when we found the London space. It's a very special house. It's like a beautiful...