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...culture wars of the 1996 campaign, Keyes is the most ferocious--and eloquent--soldier of the right. While his supporters paint him as a black Ronald Reagan, he is in fact the anti-Jesse Jackson, a silver-tongued moralist who preaches a single-minded, theologically tinted conservative message. Though Keyes registers less than 2% support in national polls of Republican voters (he came in fifth in last week's Iowa straw poll) and has a ramshackle organization, he has emerged as one of the campaign's most compelling--and curious--figures. He is , first of all, a political oxymoron...
...that are not Hox genes (that is, they do not affect the overall structure of an animal). Last year Sean Carroll, a developmental biologist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Madison, Wisconsin, showed that a homeobox gene involved in insect-limb formation also controls the genetic signals that paint spots on butterfly wings. In essence, says Carroll, butterflies use an old gene to perform a new trick. "Evolution did not have to invent new genes," he observes. "One basic toolbox gives nature enormous potential for diversity...
Whistler's Mother remains his most famous painting--up there in the peculiar grab bag of images that for one reason or another, usually unconnected with their quality as art, everyone knows, like the Mona Lisa and Grant Wood's American Gothic. The picture that made his reputation was earlier, and better. Painted in 1862, it is a portrait of his Irish lover, Jo Hiffernan, Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl. Shown in London first and then in Paris, it provoked a buzz of irrelevant interpretation. The expressionless young woman in virginal white, standing on a wolfskin with...
...spite of the best GOP efforts, Ratan adds, the hearings may provide a sense of closure that has eluded the affair so far. Still, in an event that coincides with politically-charged hearings on the federal siege at Waco, "the Republicans will be doing their best to paint a picture of an Administration that is at minimum politically inept...
...electrifying as the discovery was, the news just announced by the French Ministry of Culture is equally astonishing. Radiocarbon dating showed that the images aren't 20,000 years old, or even 27,000 (the age of what had been believed to be the earliest cave painting, at Cosquer cave near Marseilles), but 30,000 years or more -- making these the oldest cave paintings ever found. The dating is based on eight paint samples tested at three laboratories. If it holds up, says New York University anthropologist Randall White, an expert on prehistoric art, "it's a pretty big shock...