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Human cells of various types have long been successfully studied in laboratory petri dishes. Now, with the help of research performed at a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital, doctors can remove skin cells from a patient, culture them to create a new sheet of skin, and graft them back onto the patient to heal wounds...
...original Popsters may not have been great artists or even uniformly good ones, but they were Rubens and Poussin compared with these Derrida-spouting midgets. And if the graft of Conceptualism onto Pop has produced so little, it is only because the landscape of mass media presents no challenges to the artist: it is sterile now and incapable of a fresh thought or an authentic feeling. Better real ads and comics than exhausted "fine" art about them. That is one reason why our fin-de-siecle, at least in the domain of the visual arts, is turning into such...
...enough so that they will not reject the transplant. Here the trick is not to go overboard and completely cripple the immune system, leaving the body open to attack by deadly viruses and bacteria. On the other hand, they try to cajole the body's defenders into accepting the graft...
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri counters that only 5% are non-Jews. Angry immigrants warn that any slowdown in approving visas could cost lives. "Jews must get out quickly," says Emi Spielman, who arrived from Chernovtsy two weeks ago. The 60-year-old cobbler is still recovering from a skin graft he needed after an anti-Semitic gang burst into his house in the Soviet Union last April, pinned him down and burned his stomach with a hot iron...
...chains and Club Med vacations, he will also eschew the "penumbras" emanating from the Constitution that activist judges have used to find heretofore unknown protections -- like the guarantee of privacy, which underlies Roe v. Wade's right to abortion. New Hampshire Governor Judd Gregg predicts that "Souter won't graft current ideas or social concerns onto constitutional law." In a dissent he wrote in 1986, Souter said "the court's interpretive task is to determine the meaning of . . . ((constitutional language)) as it was understood when the framers proposed it." A judge cannot be more strict constructionist than that...