Word: oxford
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...Having cheated death, they aren't certain how to live. Genelle has put on a brave face for friends--and for the many reporters who have called. But in June, on a trip to Macy's with her cousin Gail LaFortune, a caterer for New York City's Oxford Cafe, Genelle confessed that she wasn't sure what life was about anymore. She wasn't sure if she had ever really known...
...with, we are left with one alternative--to change the environment that our genes have proved so ill equipped to handle. We, the species that invented barbecuing, that domesticated corn and wheat and that created foie gras and French fries, have powered through a series of food revolutions, says Oxford University historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto in his recently published book, Near a Thousand Tables (The Free Press). The purpose of the next revolution, he predicts, will be to undo the excesses of the last...
...regions." MEANWHILE The Axman Cometh Guests at a British banker's 50th birthday party at a ch?teau in the south of France were surprised when "a very special guest" came on stage to play guitar - Tony Blair, with his shirt raffishly unbuttoned. Blair, who played in a band at Oxford called Ugly Rumours, belted out vintage rock 'n' roll for two hours. Said a guest: "For a Prime Minister, he was a good guitarist...
...comparing DNA from humans, chimpanzees and other animals, researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany, and the University of Oxford in England determined that FOXP2 hardly changed during the evolution of mammals. But their analysis, reported last week in Nature, indicated a subtle genetic shift in the human family tree within the past 200,000 years. "The gene seems to trigger the development of the ability to move the mouth, lips and tongue as well as certain neural processes," says Wolfgang Enard, one of the study's German authors...
...different cultures sharing the different implications they draw from the event." It is to be released in Paris on Sept. 11 and may well prove controversial, since some of the films depict stridently anti-American attitudes. Artists in the third category are those trying to influence future events. The Oxford Research Group, a British pacifist think tank, is to mount a series of performances around Sept. 11 at the Royal Opera House's Linbury Studio. Music by Chloë Goodchild, who was flying over New York near the time of the attacks, will alternate with poetry readings and speeches from...