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While other teams have successfully grown partial tooth structures in labs, this is the first time researchers have also produced enamel, the hard outer layer of a tooth...
...somebody who loves it." People hardly appear in his pictures, he says, because there is already a central figure - the imaginary person standing in the road through whose eyes we view the scene. In George Shaw's pictures the viewer is always on the outside looking in. Using Humbrol enamel paints (designed for plastic airplane kits), Shaw, 36, depicts the 1960s housing estate in Coventry where he grew up: its fish-and-chip shops and social clubs, its surrounding wet woods and backways. People and cars are missing, the light is fading and summer never comes. In Scenes from...
...World Trade Center, called Heroes All ($34, right), was made in Poland of mouth-blown glass. Frederick's of Hollywood's America the Beautiful thong ($5) was manufactured in Hong Kong and printed in the U.S. Estee Lauder is selling an America the Beautiful compact that comes in enamel ($40) or encrusted with crystals ($75). The latter model is made in the U.S. using crystals from Austria. Some have questioned whether the items are in good taste, but their appeal is twofold: proceeds support relief efforts and the economies of U.S. allies in the fight against terror...
...thing, it is never turned off. Fueled by wood or coal in the past, but now powered by oil, gas or electricity, the 500-kg Aga remains permanently hot, ready to roast a turkey, boil a kettle or bake a cake, day or night. Its brightly colored enamel surface also emanates a constant gentle warmth which, like any hearth, tends to draw people to it. Some owners feel such affection for their Aga that they give it a name...
...Over in the corner, Tobias Schenkel is wrestling with the intricacies of an early 19th century pocket watch: on its blue enamel face, two angels strike the hours with tiny hammers. In this age of oscillating quartz crystals and digital technology, Tobias concedes that there's something absurd about his chosen profession. But for this 25-year-old, that's the whole point. "Watchmaking is like an island in the modern era," he explains. "Amid all these new technologies, it's one old technology that's exactly the same today as it was 100 years...