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...there's no p.r. trick powerful enough to spin away a blunder (a drunken wedding in Las Vegas, say), try hiring photographer David LaChapelle to dress you up and transform you into someone else completely (Jean Harlow, say). To promote BRITNEY SPEARS' upcoming concert tour, which will air on Showtime, the cable channel commissioned a glamorous new portrait of the singer--very demure, very classy. Next hurdle: getting people to believe it's Britney...
...faculty of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies will be displaying their works at the Carpenter Center through next Sunday, Feb. 29. Featured faculty-artists include Tom Butter, Elinor Carucci, Julian Lethbridge, Michaela Pavlatova and Elaine Reichek. The sculpture of Tom Butter, a Visiting Lecturer in the department, transform a mix of materials to bring form to abstract ideas, as his course VES 130r, “Idea into Form,” promises to teach. The work of Michaela Pavlatova, the Prague-born animator, is also particularly noteworthy. Free. Monday through Saturday...
...tumors arise at the site of chronic inflammation. A century later, oncologists paid more attention to the role that various genetic mutations play in promoting abnormal growths that eventually become malignant. Now researchers are exploring the possibility that mutation and inflammation are mutually reinforcing processes that, left unchecked, can transform normal cells into potentially deadly tumors...
...news,” she says. “I’m interested in the good news, that there’s this new species of women who have experienced violence and who, instead of thinking from a patriarchal place, pause, feel their grief, feel their suffering and transform it in themselves, in order to ease the pain and suffering of others...
Dubai's tourist boom is part of a bold plan to transform the tiny city-state (part of the United Arab Emirates) into a Middle Eastern Singapore--that is, an ultra-efficient regional service center and tourist destination that benefits from the innovative yet unobtrusive hand of a benevolent leader. In Dubai that would be Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, the ambitious Crown Prince whose dreams for Dubai leave those of most other gulf princes in the camel age. "They have been bold, and they have been strategic," acknowledges Sheik Mohammed, but he adds, "I have achieved only...