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...within the next decade we could be eating broccoli not just to make Mom happy but also as a way to deliver drugs that stave off infectious diseases or that treat various chronic conditions. "The idea of vaccinating people with edible plants is very new," says Dwayne Kirk of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in Ithaca, N.Y. "But it's a lot friendlier than injections...
...decent and entertaining film. Returning to a classically moralistic Star Trek storyline, the movie follows the crew of the Starship Enterprise as they stumble upon a sinister plot to uproot an peaceful agricultural race, the Ba'ku and steal their planet. Just as in the days of Captain Kirk, Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) must disobey a direct order from a Starfleet admiral in order to do what he feels is right...
...Gates, long derided for being too penurious, has put $2 billion into his two charitable foundations. Earlier this month he donated $100 million in cash toward vaccinating children in the developing world. It was just one of numerous conspicuous gifts made in 1998. Among them: Armenian-American billionaire financier Kirk Kerkorian's $200 million in aid to earthquake-ravaged Armenia, and businessmen Ted Forstmann and John Walton's $100 million fund to subsidize private-school scholarships for inner-city students...
Before Dawson and his creek were even a twinkle in his parent's eyes, prepubescents clamored in their living rooms to watch "Growing Pains" and "Who's the Boss," with then-hotties Kirk Cameron and Alyssa Milano. "Alyssa was awesome and she got better with time," says Joel R. Pollack '99. "Her character developed as the show developed. If I was watching TV and she happened to be on, it made my day." Pollack is quick to add, "This was in sixth grade." (He has not, therefore, seen Milano's breakthrough performance in 1994's lesbian vampire blockbuster, "The Nosferatu...
...most eagerly awaited show of the U.S. art season opens this week at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City: the retrospective of Jackson Pollock's work, organized by MOMA's senior curator of painting and sculpture, Kirk Varnedoe, in tandem with co-curator Pepe Carmel. The two have done a brilliant job, producing, along the way, one of the very few museum catalogs that can be read for pleasure as well as instruction. Amazingly enough, the American audience hasn't had a chance to see Pollock's work whole in more than 30 years. The last comprehensive...