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...scene. What they found was an elegantly coiffed woman sitting on the floor of the car with her legs up on the rear seat, leaning against the back of the front passenger seat. She was bleeding from a gash on her forehead. Blood was also flowing from her ear, nose and mouth. But she was conscious and moving...
...peace. If the world of Tibeto-Buddhist chic can be said to have a red-hot center, it inhabits the small restaurant in Manhattan's East Village where Yauch and his Milarepa fund are celebrating the release of the Tibetan Freedom Concert's CD. Opinion makers in knapsacks and nose rings schmooze; a large portrait of the Dalai Lama beams...
...colleagues have done is nonetheless something of a scientific coup, opening up a new line of attack against an ancient scourge. Rather shrewdly, they opted not to attack cold viruses head on. Instead, they resorted to a little bit of molecular camouflage that would, in effect, hide the nose from its microscopic foes...
Cold viruses have had millions of years to evolve different ways of infecting the cells that line the nasal passages. (The "rhino" of rhinoviruses comes from the Greek word for nose.) But it turns out that almost all the rhinoviruses use the same molecular doorway on the surface of the cell, a protein called ICAM-1, to gain entry to the upper-respiratory tract. Doctors have suspected since the late 1980s that if they could somehow flood the nose with decoy ICAM-1 molecules, they might be able to keep the rhinoviruses from attaching to the real thing...
...stone or gold he touches into a lifelike creation. Born into a family that had been master artisans for four generations, he quickly established himself as one of Jaipur's finest sculptors, and his talents were sought by temple priests and princes. "If all I saw was your nose, it would be enough for me to sculpt a likeness of your entire body," says Chandra, 75, whose folded hands are like a box of old wooden tools. "It's all to do with proportions. That is the way God has made...