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Last fall, after financial constraints forced Isaac Mizrahi to discontinue his label and Todd Oldham to shut down his high-end line, discussion in the Manhattan fashion world--a group for whom a big-think question is whether or not model Esther Canadas' lips are bigger than Barbara Hershey's in Beaches--suddenly turned weighty. From where, the fashion community gravely wondered, were its future leaders going to come? In addition to the departures of Mizrahi and Oldham, designers Marc Jacobs and Michael Kors were now splitting their time between their own collections and those of the French houses Louis...
...silver-haired, with softly reassuring blue eyes, Dr. Patrick Christopher Steptoe looked as if he'd just stepped out of a Marcus Welby rerun. In fact, the kindly doctor was a medical revolutionary. On July 25, 1978, as hundreds of reporters descended on the sleepy English mill town of Oldham, the 65-year-old obstetrician delivered the world's first "test-tube baby," a healthy, 5-lb. 12-oz. girl aptly named Louise Joy Brown. Conceived in a lab dish, or in vitro, from the egg and sperm of a working-class couple who had tried for years to have...
According to Merrill-Oldham, "the bags are evidence of something much more systemic going on. The libraries have been writing disaster plans for a long time....When a problem occurs, if you don't have a well ordered reaction plan, you run the risk of losing a much larger percentage of materials...
...letter addressed to the Universitylibraries, Merrill-Oldham said the funds are alsogoing toward such initiatives as small grouptraining sessions for the Widener Stacks Division.During the sessions librarians are instructed onthe handling of wet books and papers...
...Merrill-Oldham also said in the latteremergency "reusable disaster recovery boxes" tofreeze-dry damaged books are being stocked in thelibraries and in the age of the online library, aweb site will also launch athttp://preserve.harvard.edu...