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...pose for some pictures. Perform? Why not? Thanks to the cop, Jerry Tibbs, Bettie received her first lessons in modeling. Tibbs also offered Bettie some prescient advice: Wear bangs. The new hairdo hid her high forehead, provided a straight-line frame for her round face and her pert lips. Voila! She now looked like Bettie Page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bondage Babe Bettie Page Dies at 85 | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...placed in a nutrient-rich medium where they divide and multiply, and are then attached to a scaffolding structure and put in a bioreactor to grow. In order to achieve the texture of natural muscle, the cells must be physically stretched and flexed, or exercised, regularly. After several weeks, voila, you have a thin layer of muscle tissue that can be harvested and processed into ground beef, chicken or pork, depending on the origin of the cells. But don't expect to see big, juicy in vitro steaks anytime soon; the technology has not yet been able to synthesize blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search of a Test-Tube Hamburger | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

FILL IN THE BLANKS If any pigmentation has been lost in the rip, the gaps are covered with putty or another filler and then coated with non-oil-based paint--such as watercolor--which can be easily removed if it begins to discolor.ET VOILA! Hensick doubts that the finished repairs will be visible to casual observers: "With someone like Monet, there are so many different colors and so much texture that it's easy to camouflage any fixes in the painting itself." ET VIOLA! Hensick doubts that the finished repairs will be visible to casual observers: "With someone like Monet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dashboard: Oct. 22, 2007 | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

...Congress can treat China? It’s “either scapegoat or Sputnik.” Want to understand subtleties of diplomatic theory? “Trying to do diplomacy without the threat of pain is like trying to play baseball without a bat.” Voila. —Abe J. Riesman ’08 is outgoing Comp Director and incoming Co-Chair. He firmly believes the world is flat, and that Harvard women are also flat...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Top Five Thomas Friedman-isms | 12/14/2006 | See Source »

...roughly, how much water and fat was around the protons in a single tiny spot. The relative amount of water and fat at that spot in you determines how light or dark a little spot on the picture will be. Do this for a few hundred thousand spots and, voila, a detailed (though still far from perfect) picture of one slice of one part of your body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Fancy Machines Can ? And Can't ? Do | 5/23/2006 | See Source »

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