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...jargon. When you hear a scientist speaking on the news, it does sometimes make you cringe a bit. I have to say, one of my favorite TV shows - and I don't know that I should admit this - is Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I did go through a phase of four or five books in a row of finding a way of using Buffy the Vampire Slayer as an illustration. [Laughs...
...show recounts the art form's inexorable spread, from the New York City tenements of the 1970s to the streets of São Paolo in 2009. Pioneers like PHASE 2 and Seen, who by the 1980s were transforming New York subway cars into traveling canvases, here reproduce their works in full scale. Pieces by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring from the same period reveal graffiti's impact on fine art. Rare films and headlines describe the deaths (spray-painting on busy subway lines is hazardous) and municipal cleanup efforts that ended graffiti's golden age, at least...
...officials said the H1N1 vaccine, which is still in development, appears to be a good match to the virus so far; the shot is currently in the human-testing phase but probably won't be available until mid-October at the earliest. Officials have not yet determined whether a vaccination program will be necessary, but if it is, schools may become a center for administering shots to students, who were identified by the CDC last week as one of the first target groups for vaccination, along with pregnant women and those living in households with infants younger than six months...
...access thousands of listings for apartments, condos, villas, suburban homes and farms around the world. Initial contact is made through the sites via e-mail, with subsequent communication usually by phone. Before a match is made, potential swappers tend to talk a lot as part of a scoping-out phase that one exchange site likens to online dating...
...year. Yes VW's second quarter profits, released July 30, were down 83%, but have you seen the competition's numbers? The markets certainly like the look of the German firm: its stock price surged 5% the day the latest figures were released. "Even in a particularly difficult phase in the international automotive markets we were able to gain share in key markets. This has further improved our position on our way to the top," said Winterkorn in a statement announcing the results. (See pictures of the most important cars of all time...