Word: offbeaters
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...opposite fantasy, equally skewed: "The pasta scotta: pasta swimming in garlic sauce. It's Italy as hell. Heavy stuff. You go to Sicily and how corrupt! Half of that is true." In his book, Severgnini cooks up a compromise dish: "Let's just say that Italy is an offbeat purgatory, full of proud, tormented souls, each of whom is convinced he or she has a hotline to the boss...
...town that stretches from the Bourse down to the canal district. Today Stijl has made room on its racks for the froufrou frocks and Art Nouveau fabrics of Brussels designers Sofie D'Hoore and Cathy Pill, while the shops next door have been transformed into boutiques that sell the offbeat fashion of young designers, many of them graduates of the Brussels art school, La Cambre...
...town that stretches from the Bourse down to the canal district. Today Stijl has made room on its racks for the froufrou frocks and Art Nouveau fabrics of Brussels designers Sofie D'Hoore and Cathy Pill, while the shops next door have been transformed into boutiques that sell the offbeat fashion of young designers, many of them graduates of the Brussels art school, La Cambre. At No. 100 is Mademoiselle Jean, tel: (32-2) 513 5069, www.mademoisellejean.com, where, amid black padded walls studded with pink ribbons, designer Aurore Jean makes sexy, one-off 1950s-inspired pieces. Ribbons, bows and lingerie...
...Lucentis had yet to gain approval from the Food and Drug Administration. That's why in May 2005 Dr. Philip Rosenfeld, a macular-degeneration specialist in Miami, offered an offbeat solution: he proposed administering a drug with a similar molecular structure,?also made by Genentech, which was already approved by the FDA - for treating colorectal cancer. Since then an estimated 10,000 people worldwide have given the drug, Avastin, a shot - literally - by taking an injection of it in the eye. And most of them have had very good results with the Lucentis cousin...
...real demographic grail for any game publisher is, of course, girls. And although females have historically been largely impervious to the charms of video gaming, Nintendo has made inroads even there, with products so offbeat that they barely qualify as games at all. In Nintendogs, the object is to raise and train a cute puppy. Electroplankton can only be described as a game about farming tiny singing microbes (surely every woman's dream?). In Animal Crossing, you take up residence in a tiny cartoon town where you plant flowers and go fishing and design shirts. You can visit other players...