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...U.F.C. was bought and revamped in 2001 by second-generation Vegas tycoons Lorenzo, 35, and Frank Fertitta III, 42, brothers and co-owners of Station Casinos, who in their spare time practice Brazilian jujitsu, the technique of choice among top U.F.C. fighters. In fact, a series of buttons on the U.F.C. video game will allow you to fight as Lorenzo, who apparently is much stronger than he looks. Their parents gave them a bunch of local casinos, which, along with revenue made from consulting with Native Americans on casino operations, they have used to build the slick Green Valley Ranch...
...number of locals buy so they can be near what Mayor Goodman calls, without irony, the intellectual center of Vegas. That center is being defined, in true American fashion, not by an ocean or an island but by a stretch of highway. "That's the view," says casino owner Lorenzo Fertitta from the presidential suite at the Green Valley Ranch. "The Strip is the beach and the water." "We're going through the reverse of what so many cities have suffered through, this flight out of the city," says Jim Murren, president of MGM Mirage and a longtime Vegas resident...
...danger. You stay up all night when your daughter spikes a 101° fever. You drive across town in five minutes flat when your son falls out of a tree. But parenting a child who has a serious genetic disease transcends that entirely, as movies like Lorenzo's Oil have shown. It turns Clark Kents into Supermen and former science-phobes into experts in molecular biology. "For a long time in the pediatric community, [the attitude was] if you have a major chromosomal abnormality, you're going to not grow well, you're going to be developmentally delayed, you're going...
...Hayward Gallery in London. Although the title of her Beckham portrait winks at Michelangelo's most famous sculpture, she says her inspiration was another of his sculptures, Night, a curiously muscular, semiclad woman carved in the 1520s for the crypt of Giuliano de' Medici in the Church of San Lorenzo, Florence. Gazing at David, one can't help but think of Andy Warhol's Sleep - the 1963 work in which he trained his 16-mm camera on the slumbering form of the poet John Giorno, coupled, perhaps, with the rich hues and dark settings of a Caravaggio. But never mind...
...wait three months, then Florentine perfumer Lorenzo Villoresi will conjure up a fragrance in a mere two hours. You choose ingredient by ingredient?the master tests their effect on your skin. The final product?a 100-ml bottle of eau de toilette or a 30-ml bottle of eau de parfum?costs $730, and you can also order shampoos, body lotion and bath oils with the same fragrance...