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Chase’s first brush with gourmet cooking came at age 13, when she served as cook at the Nantucket home of her aunt and uncle. For several months, she furnished the family with three meals a day. She also catered their weekly dinner parties using ingredients that had been grown locally...
...already fiery rep. Damien Hirst At first thought to have perished, Hirst's 7-m bronze statue Charity (2003) was one of only two items to survive the blaze. Hirst's oeuvre already fetches top prices - a 1992 piece went for $1 million in May - but Charity's brush with death is bound to increase both its cash value and cultural cachet...
...Today a brush-fire challenge to Bush's stem-cell policy is spreading across the U.S., fueled by the frustration of such families as Zucker's who have allied themselves with patient activists for other diseases, major universities, several state legislatures and members of Congress. Last month 206 U.S. Representatives wrote to the President, calling on him to fund stem-cell research on spare embryos from a pool of some 400,000 stored in the freezers of in vitro fertilization clinics. These embryos, only a few days old and smaller than the head of a pin, will probably be discarded...
That victory over the Tigers was Harvard’s closest brush with defeat all season and it will be Princeton that presents the largest challenge to the Crimson’s quest for perfection...
...musical is a dramatization of Seurat’s most famous work, “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.” The painting employs pointillism, a technique developed by Seurat that uses small brush strokes and dots of color, which the eye blends when viewed from a distance...