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...resentment of official art and its newly founded instrument, the Royal Academy, was built into him. Like many other such craftsmen at the time, he was possibly a Mason. Certainly he felt like an outsider, and was fascinated by the ideas of the 16th century alchemist Paracelsus, the mystic Jakob Bohme and his contemporary, Emanuel Swedenborg. He was not, of course, the only Englishman to be caught up with these visionaries and cranks, but there was no major artist on whom their ideas had more influence. Blake's imagery of transcendence and spiritual transformation through direct "knowing" owed nearly...
...latest panic over bovine spongiform encephalopathy and its brain-wasting human variant, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, erupted late last year. The first trigger was the recall of possibly tainted beef-believed to be the main vector of human infection-by three French supermarket chains. Then came reports that Germany, Spain and Italy, previously untouched by the epidemic, had discovered their first bse cases. "I lost between 50% and 60% of my customers overnight," says Paris butcher Alain Lamarchand...
...first cases appeared in humans; the disease was re-christened yet again as a "new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease" (VCJD) because it resembled an existing illness whose cause is unknown. The new disease was probably caused by eating beef containing brain or spinal tissue from mad cows, since human cases invariably turned up in countries with BSE problems...
...Jakob Dylan looks like a guy who's finally comfortable in his own skin. As he walks into the restaurant in the lobby of the Four Seasons Hotel in New York City, the 30-year-old frontman for the folk-rock band the Wallflowers, whose lyrics are often dour, even has a slight smile on his face. His black hair is lightly tousled. As he sits down, he removes his wraparound dark glasses to reveal wide, soulful eyes that seem to beg for music-video closeups. He admits freely that he used to have a reputation for being difficult ("People...
...Stark says. "You want them to read your information." That's what makes the stock go up, but it also makes you easier to find. Lebed may have got away with his schemes for a year, but others have been identified within days. In the Emulex case in August, Jakob was targeted within hours of his phony press release. Hoke, an employee at PairGain Technologies, was nabbed just a week after his bogus release declared that PairGain was about to be bought...