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...panelists peppered the discussion with anecdotes about sitting next to La Toya Jackson at the Michael Jackson trial and experiencing the circus of mass media that descended on Eagle, Colo. during the Kobe Bryant scandal...
...legally defined as "champagne" in most of the world comes only from a specific 84,000-acre (34,000 hectares) region. An 80-year-old French law carefully maps where the grapes--pinot noir, pinot meunier and chardonnay--can be grown. The Institut National de l'Origine et de la Qualité (INAO) determines exactly how much the winegrowers can produce--this year's harvest is expected to bring in 400 million bottles. With a steadily increasing demand, winemakers have asked French regulators to commit what would once have been considered heresy: to redefine or even expand the boundaries of Champagne...
Bioengineer J. Craig Venter is expected to announce within the next few months, perhaps weeks, that he and his company, Synthetic Genomics of Rockvile, Md. and La Jolla, Calif., have created Earth’s first artificial life form. The feat will be an important milestone in the growing scientific world of “synthetic biology” (synbio). If you haven’t heard of synthetic biology yet, you are not alone. Research in this groundbreaking field is advancing light years ahead of public awareness, but decisions made now will have implications for everyone within the next...
Each room at the Town House comes with its own private butler, on call 24 hours a day. Want tickets to the sold-out performance at La Scala? Done. Going to dinner but don't have the right shoes? Your butler can get a pair made. Hungry? Have a plate of eight cheeses and seven types of bread. After a stay here, it's tough to go back to making your own snacks, ironing...
...hallucinations - a related and not uncommon condition in which imaginary music seems to come from an outside source that can't be turned off - the results are often debilitating. One patient, June B., has been subjected to a short, repeating playlist that includes Amazing Grace, the drinking song from La Traviata and "a really dreary version" of We Three Kings of Orient Are, for over 10 years...