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Despite the myriad ways in which flowers are employed--to console, to woo, to cajole--they are seldom used to provoke. They seem too fragile and ephemeral to shock in the ways that fashion and art do so well. But like those media, flowers are subject to trends, and some of the leaders in the field are determined that bouquets should do more than merely decorate...
...also helps explain why he was so slow to address the controversy over his comments on Thurmond. Except for brief flare-ups when his name was associated with fringe groups, the people who really mattered to him--his Mississippi supporters and Republicans in the Senate and White House--had seldom complained about such comments in the past. "The most important thing to understand about Trent Lott is that he never left Mississippi," says a Republican politician who has worked with him for decades. "He did not grow in the sense of trying to understand the country." Lott rose in Congress...
...Full outbreaks are just the tip of the tip of an iceberg," says Paul Mead, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's food-borne--and diarrheal-diseases branch. The vast majority of food-borne illnesses strike only a handful of children at a time, and symptoms are seldom reported to the school or a doctor, much less the CDC. But once infected, children are at much higher risk than healthy adults for developing complications...
...jittery Kiwi. His Lord of the Rings trilogy was considered perhaps the riskiest endeavor in motion-picture history. Based on J.R.R. Tolkien's mythical sword-and-sorcery three-part novel, the movies were all filmed at once during a mammoth 15-month shoot. Jackson, a relatively unknown director who seldom stepped foot outside New Zealand and who was best known for quirky, low-budget films, was given a $270 million budget. The cost ultimately climbed to $310 million. If the first movie had tanked, then New Line (which, like TIME, is owned by AOL Time Warner) would have...
Sometimes in the sanctity of a brief moment, an idea—germinating, grasping—hatches, and we seem to see the world several shades more brightly than before. It is these moments that we so seldom stumble upon, in the routine busyness of our lives. How little time we have to think, when there is so much—and always more—we have...