Word: patches
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...part because of numerous medical, ethical and psychological concerns that had to be considered first. That's one reason it was so startling to learn last week that the first face transplant--albeit a partial one--has taken place. Doctors in France reported that they took a triangular patch of facial tissue containing the nose, lips and chin of a brain-dead donor and transplanted them onto a 38-year-old mother of two who had been severely mauled by a dog last...
Back out in the store, two teenage girls are carefully sizing up a pair of jeans with broadtail patch pockets. ?Ciao !? Addis says when he spots them. He doesn't know them per se, but he quickly explains that the friendliness is part of the Dolce & Gabbana strategy. ? Other designers, they are very snob. Dolce and Gabbana are never snob,? he says. ?They are friendly. Ciao! Ciao...
...Younger White Brother was here, and as he had promised during his last visit on earth, he would save them," Tan writes of the Karen perspective. "He could manifest weapons. He could make the tribe invisible. They would then ? walk openly without being shot, until they reached a patch of land, the promised land." The tribe is so hospitable that the Americans do not realize they have been kidnapped, thinking they're stranded merely because a bridge is out. They settle into a primitive but largely idyllic existence, despite a few cross-cultural miscues. (The delicious crunchy things turn...
...glamorous otherness-of a WASP elite as tall, thin and gleaming as Deco skyscrapers, of an oasis of chic, an object of pride and envy for the white ethnics living in Brooklyn and the Bronx and Paramus and points west-has a lot to do with a 10-block patch of midtown real estate called Broadway. That's where the swells dressed up for the opening night of a Gershwin show starring Fred and Adele Astaire. The Woolworth Building, four miles down the street, was the Cathedral of Commerce; the village of legitimate theaters made Manhattan, for its outlying neighbors...
...where this wildcatter is placing his bets. African tribal masks and art adorn the lobby and a 6-ft.-high, full-color topographical map of the African continent dominates one wall. Van Dyke has spent more than $100 million looking for oil in his West African patch, and early results were promising enough that ExxonMobil, Shell, Unocal and France's Total have signed up as partners...