Word: tracee
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...thousands of veterans who have complained of mysterious illnesses since the end of the Gulf War, some of whom have linked their ailments to exposure to poison gas. Although low levels of chemicals that inhibit nerve functioning were found near battle sites, congressional analysts now say these trace amounts could well derive from pesticides, not lethal...
...illustrations, you see why it took so long. Possessing a graphical style as unique and instantly recognizable as Edward Gorey's, Burns works in meticulous detail using heavy inks that seem to bring out the worst horrors of anyone or anything. He will individually trace each hideous hair of an emerging mustache above an adolescent lip, for example. Some of the most intensely high contrast comix every created, everything is made up of either pure white or jet black, and mostly the latter. Visually, it's one of the most stunning graphic novels yet published. Incredibly, although it took...
...genres is spotty--this season, the middling WB buddy-lawyer show Just Legal and NBC's Pentagon snooze E-Ring--but in cop procedurals, he has gone five for five. That tingle in your chest when you see Anthony LaPaglia race to find a missing child on Without a Trace? That's Bruckheimer pushing your buttons...
...influenza viruses--if you trace their lineage back far enough--got their start in birds, and the great majority stay there. But a handful of flu viruses adapt to the point that they can infect people. Each year the viruses capable of invading human cells mutate slightly in a way that leads to fresh outbreaks, but most people will still have a partial immunity because of previous exposure to similar viruses. Occasionally, though, a strain that had seemed to infect only birds will cross over more or less intact into humans. Because this new strain is so different from garden...
...Institute of Arts through February 5. The show is simultaneously a choice selection of Rodin's work, a thorough survey of Claudel's and an intricately woven account of their artistic and romantic interaction. It brings together 155 examples of their art, plus photographs, letters and journal entries, to trace the arc of a heated, exhausting attachment that came to an unhappy end, but not before it left its mark on some of their most enduring work...