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HCNR is a non-profit organization that supports research of diseases that impair normal brain function, like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Multiple Sclerosis...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Woman To Climb African Peak | 11/19/2002 | See Source »

...Vertu recalls an earlier, bulkier era. Kuwaiti fashion mogul Sheik Majed al-Sabah stopped carrying his, complaining of its weight. Before you put a Vertu on your Christmas list, check Santa's bank balance: prices go all the way up to €24,000 for the platinum model. In functional terms, that sum gets you one unique feature: a "concierge" button that lets you buy theater tickets or restaurant bookings in any city in the U.S., Europe and Asia by dialing into a 24-hour call center. But of course, many of today's expensive accessories were once seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vertu Is Its Own Reward | 11/17/2002 | See Source »

...true” in line 23 of Great Work X, we easily forget much of literature’s original purpose: to take readers out of their lives and metaphorically move them somewhere else. Today, movies fill the “art as virtual travel” function in our society. But Harry Potter has reclaimed that role for reading...

Author: By Sarah M. Seltzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harry and Me | 11/14/2002 | See Source »

...movie from this year, Law Chi-leung?s ?Inner Senses,? with Leslie Cheung as a psychiatrist gradually unhinged by a patient who ... sees ghosts. There?s a smooth creepiness at work here, and it?s always a treat to see Leslie go mad on screen, but the picture?s function in this series is mainly to provide a comparison between the relatively reserved, calculated product of today and the magnificently unsettling movie spew of colonial days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Hong Kong Horrors! | 11/13/2002 | See Source »

This tissue regeneration, in turn, increased the heart’s ability to function healthily...

Author: By Nura A. Hossainzadeh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Stem Cell Research Holds Promise for Heart Disease Damaged Heart Tissue | 11/5/2002 | See Source »

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