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...Bowled over The Royal VKB's Mix 'n' Measure line by designer Jan Hoekstra allows chefs to measure ingredients (the plastic bowls feature easy-to-read metric graphics), stir them up in the same container and then pour with ease. They cut down on spills and dirty dishes. www.royalkb.com
...many early socialist parties were vehemently anticlerical. By the early 20th century, France's Third Republic had formally decreed the separation of church and state, and Pope Pius X complained that "God has been driven out of public life." Attempts by militaristic governments in the 20th century to mix God and patriotism, such as Francisco Franco's National Catholicism in Spain, served to heighten the distrust Europeans felt for religion. After the 1960s and '70s, secularism had become a central part of the West European mind-set, so much so that even devoutly Christian leaders - like Britain's Tony Blair...
...genetic differences between chimps and humans, therefore, must be relatively subtle. And they can't all be due simply to a slightly different mix of genes. Even before the human genome was sequenced back in 2000, says biologist Sean Carroll of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, "it was estimated that humans had 100,000 genes. When we got the genome, the estimate dropped to 25,000. Now we know the overall number is about 22,000, and it might even come down...
...even the toughest critics acknowledge that these studies have enormous potential. "We will eventually be able to pinpoint every difference between every animal on the planet," says Lovejoy. "And every time you throw another genome, like the gorilla's, into the mix, you increase the chances even more...
Want to look au courant this spring? Start planning to reach for the Thigh Master. On Milan's catwalks last week designers kept things supershort with a leggy mix of micro-minis, teeny minis and itsy-bitsy minis. Skirts and dresses like those above from Fendi, Prada and Gucci offered 1960s-inspired silhouettes and hemlines that stopped only barely south of modesty...