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...question of using stem cells for research is intrinsically scientific, and yet has become the political cause du jour in Washington. The debate surrounding the cells threatens to rend traditional alliances, challenging our comprehension of life and leaving some abortion opponents in a very uncomfortable spot: Is it possible to protect the strict boundaries inherent in the "sanctity of life" and still harvest these cells to help the living among...
...status symbols, showmanship and precision performance. Kalamazoo, a small company in Michigan, sells its customized sculptural grills largely for their beauty. Boris Yeltsin has one at his dacha, according to the company. It's no accident that stainless steel--functional, low maintenance and totally showy--has become the metal du jour for all early 21st century grills. And where luxury items go, the mass market follows: Coleman released a stainless-steel grill this year...
With a career growing, Puryear, 60, has done a number of public art projects in recent years. The latest (still in design) is for the state of Illinois, commemorating the first pioneer to settle in what eventually became Chicago: a fur trader named Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable, (1745-1818). Little is known about Du Sable except that (through his mother's Haitian ancestry) he was black. This became a matter of some importance to the city's black community, and Puryear, who lived in Chicago in the 1980s, has been approached about a possible monument to its obscure founder...
...applies for the job of "movie star." There are no graduate courses in the subject. The title is a gift from a public that has decided, as if ignited by mass lust, that you are the hottie du jour. That's the easy part. The hard part is maintaining an effortless allure through the rumbles of inane projects and the hiccups of popular taste...
...very this minute. It's the exercise cum meditation for the new millennium, one that doesn't so much pump you up as bliss you out. In the U.S., yoga now straddles the continent?from Hollywood, where $20 million-a-picture actors queue for a session with their guru du jour, to Washington, where, in the gym of the Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and 15 others faithfully take their class each Tuesday morning...