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...Japanese legend, Kaguya was a beautiful princess who came from the moon and was born inside a bamboo stalk. Today, at the Tokyo University of Agriculture, Kaguya's namesake is a 14-month-old mouse whose conception is every bit as fantastic: she was created by scientists using two eggs and no sperm. As reported in the journal Nature last week, that makes Kaguya the first mouse born by parthenogenesis (from the Greek for virgin birth), a reproductive method seen in insects and reptiles but never before in mammals...
...Prurient, crass and insensitive." CHESTER STERN, spokesman for Mohammed Fayed, on CBS's decision to broadcast photographs from the car crash that killed Princess Diana and Fayed's son Dodi...
...originally from the Boston area, her film Double Dare deals with a phenomenon not normally encountered in the Northeast—stuntwomen. The film documents two individual stuntwomen named Jeannie, the stunt double for Wonder Woman in the 1970s, and Zöe, the stunt double for Xena: Warrior Princess...
...goat cheese toasts with fresh figs and honey, and chilled hearts of palm soup with pomegranate seeds, are featured in Lilly’s latest business venture Essentially Lilly, an illustrated guide to entertaining as told by Lilly to her friend Jay Mulvaney, who can now add Palm Beach Princess Pulitzer’s tale to his short list of princess story authorship (his other subjects include Diana and Jackie). Mulvaney, who referred to Pulitzer in a recent interview as “a very chic mother earth,” is also quite the statistician...
...house with a heritage more sacred to the French than the 35-hour workweek, the French press saw it as a sign of the nation's cultural decline. But Galliano persevered, teaching the Dior ateliers, where clothes are made by hand, to cut everything closer to the body. Soon Princess Diana and Nicole Kidman were calling. By the end of the 1990s, Galliano's sexy, spaghetti-strapped silhouette had become the uniform for all red-carpet-bound celebrities. With the introduction of handbag collections, remodeled stores and multimillion-dollar ad campaigns, Galliano has reinvented Dior, transforming it from a dowdy...