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...online survey has allowed Vaux and to gather a large amount of data inexpensively and with a relatively small amount of effort, said Scott A. Golder ’03, who works with Vaux. The survey will help Vaux compile an atlas of regional dialects that will be the first such work in decades...
Celebrities and filmmakers gather in Park City, Utah, this week for the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, but even if you're not in the film biz or a friend of Gwyneth Paltrow's, it's not too late to be part of the glitzy fun. Instead of trying to cram into overbooked Park City, stay 40 minutes away at Robert Redford's 6,000-acre resort in Sundance Village. Packages are still available, starting at $295 a night, and include screenings of some of the films being shown at the festival and skiing on a surprisingly uncrowded mountain. Celeb spotting...
...year of the Botox party--a festive variation on the Tupperware klatch--in which women gather for tea sandwiches and a shot of diluted botulinum toxin in the face. The FDA last year approved the use of Botox, which creates a temporary and localized paralysis in facial muscles, for smoothing wrinkles between the eyebrows. But doctors are also using the shots for such "off-label" applications as crow's-feet, furrowed brows and other frown lines. If the sight of all those glassy Botoxed faces is giving you a headache, get this: researchers at Wake Forest University found that Botox...
...January, 10 of these unlikely crusaders gather around the bed in Su's bare-walled house to recount their misfortunes. Wang Hao displays a pile of photographs of houses rent apart at the seams. Zu Youming reads from a handwritten sheet listing the times he's been rebuffed by local officials. On the bed lies a petition with red thumbprints beside each signature. Suddenly, from below the house comes the startling sound of exploding dynamite. Su's home heaves upward and his windows rattle. "Don't worry," says the bathhouse owner. "That's just the miners, back from their lunch...
...Bush took office, the official met with Cheney in Washington. "He just didn't say anything; so I kept talking and talking until I ran out of things to say. It made me feel like a complete idiot," he adds cheerfully--an acknowledgement that sometimes the best way to gather information is by not trying to. "And then at the end, he looked at me quizzically and said, 'How's your brother?'" The brother had been an aide to Margaret Thatcher and was still in Cheney's Rolodex...