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...collection of hair-care products, attack the image-consciousness and blatant consumerism of today's post-teens. There is "SlimeWarrior...the shampoo of conquerors with patented ten-minute algaeplasma slime formula." And there's "HairHenge, containing folliclemaintenance secrets devised by the ancient druids." Not to mention "Monk-on-Fire, containing placenta, nectarine-pit extract, and B vitamins...
LIBRETTOS HAVE BEEN CONSTRUCTED out of some unlikely material -- Gertrude Stein's poetry, ancient Sanskrit texts -- but never have the words been so, well, unwordy as those for Atlas, a new opera by the minimalist composer- singer-dancer MEREDITH MONK that was performed last week in Brooklyn. La la la and Hay yo, Hay yo are just two of the "arias" in this tale of an ! explorer named Alexandra (Monk), who travels to the roof of the world with a handful of intrepid companions and finds both adventure and, in the end, herself. An offbeat but sophisticated hybrid of simple...
...more than a century, scientists have built upon the basic principles of heredity that Austrian monk Gregor Mendel gleaned from his painstaking studies of garden peas. One of the most strongly held beliefs has been that genes -- whether normal or abnormal -- are passed from generation to generation essentially unchanged. Now that assumption is being challenged. Last week scientists announced that in people with a form of muscular dystrophy, they had identified a segment of DNA that can lengthen substantially with each succeeding generation. Most disturbing, as the fragment lengthens, the illness becomes more severe. "This is not your garden-variety...
...story begins in 1960, during a great famine. When a mysterious man saves Hsun-ching after he falls down a waterfall, Hsun-ching comes under the guidance of a Buddhist monk...
...monk teaches Hsun-ching many things, including written Chinese, English and the mysterious adventures of the Monkey King. He also passes on to Hsun-ching the quest to find a lost Buddhist scroll--the Laughing Sutra--which an American had stolen years earlier...