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RING OF PREVENTION In its ongoing search for the perfect birth-control device, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a new one called NuvaRing. It's a clear, flexible plastic ring that's inserted into the vagina once a month and emits the same hormones used in the Pill but in lower (and presumably safer) doses. It should be available by spring...
...Matthew Ritchie's paintings you learned in physics class, and fittingly, his installations, which incorporate his paintings, can be massive. Parents and Children measures 23 ft. by 54 ft. by 16 ft. and literally spills down the wall and onto the floor, the overflow composed of little pieces of plastic that together form patchwork carpets of abstract art. Each of his canvases swims with details. Humans, angels and the devil sometimes lurk in the corners. But the main focus is on the elemental forces--time, energy, gravity--that Ritchie brings together in intense knots of color...
...live together, and spend half the year abroad in exotic locales like Monaco and Bermuda. They dress in Ungaro if they dress at all. Kyoko never goes out without her 24-carat diamond ring; Mika has her G-cup bras custom-made (they won't confirm or deny plastic surgery). "To Japanese, we are like anim? characters," Kyoko sighs over a five-course dinner in a private room at their favorite Tokyo restaurant. Mika nods. (By Mika's estimate, her older sibling does 90% of the talking.) "We look unreal," Kyoko adds. "We do and say what we please...
American Express Bank, which lost none of its 350 employees despite the destruction of its offices at 7 World Trade Center, relocated to three underground bunkers across the Hudson River in Weehawken, N.J. Plastic was peeled off standby PCs. Backup computer tapes were sent in by messenger. Plans were in place to reroute communications from international banking networks, but by the time the system was up, operators were hours behind. "You cater to the worst scenario, but this was worse than we had planned for," says Norman Gilchrist, head of global operations. Yet within 12 hours of the attacks...
...hard to understand why the tourists aren't coming. "The people were cutting each other's heads off," Roy, a tour guide, says, running his finger across his neck. "They threw the heads away like plastic." And though the Christian-Muslim riots were 21 months ago, tales of beheadings tend to stick in the mind. Besides, there have been problems since, including a fight between rival villages in which nine people died. And anyway, this is Indonesia, sick man of Asia, viewed as primed to explode in 1,000 different ethnic and religious directions. Seriously, why holiday in Lombok...