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There is no coat of arms on the flask, but somewhere in one of Britain's hospitals a convalescent patient has some of the world's most exclusive blood flowing through his or her veins. The regal donor of the precious stuff was Prince Charles, 36, who has become the first member of the royal family ever to give blood, in his case, O Rh-negative. The unprecedented puncturing of royalty was to reassure Britons after a nationwide scare about AIDS caused a drop in donations. At the North London Transfusion Center, the Prince was asked whether he was homosexual...
...karat gold-plated flask containing one-third of an ounce, Amouage, which means "waves of emotion" in Arabic, may be the world's most expensive fragrance gift. Even so, the list of shoppers who simply must have it threatens to stretch well past Christmas. Joanne Rose of Asprey, the sole U.S. distributor, says the store has been besieged with orders from as far away as Beverly Hills...
...makes up the dermis. Green realized that the discovery had implications for burn patients: Cultured skin, derived from the victim, would not be rejected by the body's immune system. Another major advance came when Green discovered that a certain bacterial enzyme could remove skin cultures from a flask in entire sheets by loosening the bond between the cells and the plastic surface of the container...
...sweet smell of success now comes in a bottle. For the chief executive officer or those who merely aspire to corporate distinction, a Cleveland firm is manufacturing a men's cologne at $45 per 4-oz. flask called-what else?-C.E.O. The scent is said to be "gracious. When you get in this class you want something that whispers." Next: Ms. C.E.O., a fragrance the company plans to sell to top ladies...
...students were applying a heat gun to a spherical flask of trimethy lamine n-oxide under a vacuum in an attempt to drive water out of the compound when the accident occurred. Farley added, "It heated up too much and detonated somehow," he said...