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...Pairs of socks a Turkish hosier gave World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz after he was caught wearing holey socks at a photo op at a Turkish mosque...
...avid bread baker for 20 years, but it was only eight months ago that the 59-year-old psychotherapist found true breadbaking bliss in the rounded form of her first handcrafted hearth bread. Next came a ciabatta--a traditional Italian loaf with a crisp crust and a remarkably chewy, holey interior. Holey or perhaps holy! One bite brought Stanfield to ecstasy: "I thought I was going to either pass out or burst into tears," she says. Stanfield has fallen hard for the time-honored craft of making artisanal breads--European-style yeast breads that are usually shaped by hand...
...artists she has brought together in Adelaide explode the idea of what photography can be. There are the type-C seascapes wrapped round beach balls in Derek Kreckler's Holey 1, 2, 3, 2003, which cleverly shows up the medium's two-dimensional shortcomings. Then there's the anti-war imagery scanned from the Internet and drawn over 4,000 Post-It notes in Silvia V?lez's Not In My Name, 2004. Above all, the show attempts to free up the frozen image, capturing the shift in contemporary art from photography to video and back again. Exhibit A is Patricia...
...four flights of stairs, many a weary visitor has come to appreciate the relaxing oasis that is Cabot I-41. Entrance into Michael J. Simonetti’s ’02 lair is granted only after removing one’s shoes, but the risk of exposing holey socks is well worth taking. Plush velvet pillows and mattresses swathed in luxurious fabrics beg to be sat/lied/leaned upon. Dimmed lights and jazz music pleasantly ease the senses as Simmonetti, unconcerned with the time of the visit, offers his guests champagne and other cocktails from his personal...
...last week's congressional hearing, called to weigh the impact of Venter's venture on the Genome Project, Washington University geneticist Maynard Olson predicted that the Venter map will have more than 100,000 "serious gaps"--regions where the fragments are improperly aligned. "Yes, you'll get a holey map," agrees Rockefeller University professor Norton Zinder, who was chair of the first Genome Project advisory committee. "But we will fill the holes." He anticipates substantial benefits from Venter's plan. "Craig," he says, "has jump-started the sequencing...