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...mondera.com have detailed buying guides to help make your choices clearer. Blue Nile even has a build-to-order program that lets shoppers choose from 16,000 diamonds and 70 settings. Its online tools let you see, for example, exactly how a pear-shaped diamond will look in a classic solitaire setting...
...whose hearts are no longer protected by estrogen, on the other hand, quickly become even more vulnerable than men. Smoking increases the risk of heart disease more dramatically for women. Even the signs of an incipient heart attack can be different for each sex. While some women get the classic symptoms--chest and arm pain, a squeezing sensation in the chest and shortness of breath--many others experience atypical symptoms, such as dizziness, nausea and pressure between the shoulder blades...
Barry's book is a satire set in a nightmare future. William Gibson's Pattern Recognition (Putnam; 356 pages) is a serious thriller set in the dystopian present. Gibson, best known for the seminal cyberpunk classic Neuromancer, tells the story of Cayce Pollard, a "coolhunter" who gets paid to spot hot new trends for marketers. In her private life, Cayce is obsessed with a series of short films that have appeared anonymously on the Internet. These are enigmatic, surreal scraps of footage that exude an overwhelming melancholy--kind of like the video in The Ring, but sad, not scary. Trouble...
...CENERENTOLA. Cinderella makes an appearance in an unlikely spot—the Dunster House Dining Hall—in the Dunster Opera Society’s production of La Cenerentola. The retelling of the classic fairy tale features music by eighteenth-century Italian composer Luigi Rossini. With performances beginning at 8:30, glass slipper-wearing audience members can rest assured they’ll have plenty of time to return home before midnight, footwear and carriage still intact. Thursday, Feb. 13 through Saturday, Feb. 22 at 8:30 p.m. Tickets $8, $7 students, $6 Dunster House residents...
...pretty wild ride, showcasing once and for all that the new school of glitzy film stars can sing better than Jennifer Lopez. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellweger, and especially John C. Reilly are surprisingly watchable in this furiously edited, expensive adaptation of the murderous Broadway classic. Die-hard Bob Fosse fans may leave screaming in disgust, but fortunately for the rest of us director Rob Marshall knows the difference between film and theater, and milks it with remarkable excess. Chicago screens...