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...YEARS, GUCCI HAD BEEN descending from Riviera swank to Jersey gaud. Its overlicensed double-G appeared on everything from coffee mugs to ashtrays. Fake versions of its handbags were sold on urban street corners everywhere. Then, suddenly, it found a shoe that fit: a sexy, backless clodhopper that became the must-have of devotees of high style in 1993. Gucci went on a winning streak. By March 1995 its designer, Tom Ford, was electrifying the fashion world with a revival of '60s rebellion. Soon celebrities like Madonna were in head-to-toe Gucci. At the company's London boutique this...
...live mouse with a human ear growing out of its back? Surely it's a freak or a fake, something out of a carnival sideshow or supermarket tabloid? No, the startling creature that showed up in newspapers and on television last week is quite real and actually serves a scientific purpose. It is the latest and most dramatic demonstration of progress in tissue engineering, a new line of research aimed at replacing body parts lost to disease, accident or, as is often the case with a missing ear, a schoolyard fight...
...that police seized from his Ford Bronco. According to documents filed Monday by Simpson attorney Carl Douglas, the former football star got his passport and Hall of Fame ring back after he was acquitted of murder, but prosecutors have refused to return anything else. Among them: the famous handgun, fake beard and mustache; two cassettes ("Too Funky" and "Frank Sinatra Duets"); various membership cards (Hertz, West Hills Country Club, Blockbuster Video and a "Hooters VIP" card) and $3.93 in change...
John R. Stith, a graduate student at the Kennedy School of Government, said he agreed with Keyes that "legislating morality is a fake question...
Eszterhas has urged teenagers to use fake IDs to get into his movie, to which Hollywood czar Jack Valenti declares, "Someone who would make that statement needs professional counseling--it's so palpably stupid." The screenwriter also insists the film has a modern, even feminist moral: "The message is that you don't have to sell your soul to make...