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Girl with a Pearl Earring...
Girl with a Pearl Earring...
...book business doesn't care about art anymore? It's not the art of fiction we have in mind here. It's fiction that manages to work in a few Italian frescoes or a Dutch still life. Stirred by the success of Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring, about a household servant who inspires Vermeer, publishers have rushed in with titles like Christopher Peachment's Caravaggio; Will Davenport's The Painter, about Rembrandt; and Mario Vargas Llosa's The Way to Paradise, about Gauguin. As a rule, the books are intelligent, sometimes even ingenious, but in most...
...sources close to the defense tell TIME that Stewart's attorney Robert Morvillo intends to highlight discrepancies between notes taken at that interview by a rookie FBI agent and those taken by one of Stewart's attorneys, Stephen Pearl. According to Pearl's notes, Stewart did not deny knowing about the phone log but said only that she didn't know the time the message was taken. Because Armstrong didn't record the time, the defense will say Stewart didn't lie. The judge, meanwhile, is giving the prosecution little leeway to prove Stewart committed securities fraud by misleading...
...drafting boards. Among the new inventions currently in circulation that could improve your well-being: the LifeShirt, a vest that monitors cardiac, pulmonary and respiratory activity as well as posture; the M2A capsule, a pill that when ingested reports on the functioning of your intestines; a nurse bot named Pearl that will take your vital signs and retrieve basic items; and the Health Dashboard, inspired by the dashboard in your car, which displays everything from environmental metrics like the pollen index and flu trends to personal data like blood pressure, cholesterol levels, exercise patterns and drug compliance...