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...February Eleventh is the birthday of its proprietress Ruth Dorsla, a Liberian-born designer whose dreamy specialties include silk embroidery, crochet and hand-dyes in items such as wraps, ponchos, dresses, blouses, dusters and scarves. It's a shop that satisfies the appetites of rock-star aggressives and ethereal earth goddesses equally. Her hand-dyes are known for their exceptional and sometimes startling color combinations, a talent she attributes to "having no color sense." Dorsla explains that unlike in New York, where black is a fashion staple (a code she encountered upon arriving at the Fashion Institute of Technology...
...Christmas shopping guide. It is also listed in this year's "New York Magazine Shops - A Guide to the Best Stores in New York." With one of the very few shops in the city where hats are actually made on the premises, Barbara and apprentice designer Mei Lan Low hand-block and hand-craft hats from start to finish using techniques and equipment scarcely changed since the 19th century. Says Feinman, "Some of the wood blocks we use are probably 100 years old, and the sewing machine we sew hats on, called a setup machine, is a refurbished antique...
...place on this trendy stretch of street. More than a dozen people are seated inside, needles poised, as owner Michele Renee hosts one of her popular monthly knitting parties. Renee, who also attracts a crowd when she pulls out her just-like-the-fairy-tale spinning wheel, creates couture, hand-dyed yarn. Her knits are available in cotton to cashmere and include handmade sweaters, skirts, dresses, hats, scarves and quirky but useful knit accessories (cuffs that transform into a scarf for $95). Yarn, patterns and knitting supplies are also available. Stitch by stitch, row by row, the French-born, Brooklyn...
Whether such an anti-Parkinson’s potion is really so close at hand is unclear, but scientists are not waiting to find out. Other possible treatments now under study include boosting anti-oxidants, which would protect brain cells from free radicals, highly reactive molecules that are byproducts of oxidation; and blocking the body’s production of compounds called excitatory amino acids, which can sometimes cause neuron damage. It’s hard to say which, if any, of these treatments will likely succeed, but with science closing in from so many directions, it’s possible that Parkinson...
...necessarily. There are conflicting schools of thought on that. Definitely, it was dangerous to maintain Chernobyl. But on the other hand, these things come and go, and you can never be sure they won't return. In Armenia, they had a power station of the same design as Chernobyl. And in the years after the explosion, as the Soviet Union reached its lowest ebb and collapsed, the environmentalist movement managed to get that reactor shut down. It was a particularly dangerous one, because in those glorious Soviet times they managed to build a nuclear power plant directly over a geological...