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...Newhouse, chairman of Conde Nast International, was greeted warmly by Domenico De Sole, CEO of Gucci Group (owner of the McQueen label), and shown to an envied front-row seat. The fashion plebeians who didn't recognize him or his power-broker companions couldn't miss his three-quarter-length woven leather coat by Bottega Veneta. Who was the guy smiling and schmoozing and wearing a $7,500 coat...
SUPERMAN GOES HOME AGAIN A lot has changed in Smallville since CHRISTOPHER REEVE last visited. For one thing, it has got smaller. When Reeve starred in Superman I-IV, each was a feature-length film shown in movie theaters. Today most viewers track the travails of Clark Kent on the small screen in the hit WB television series Smallville, with a teenage Kent played by TOM WELLING. Reeve, who was paralyzed in a horseback-riding accident in 1995, will make a guest appearance on the show on Feb. 25, playing a scientist who is researching the planet Krypton...
...most agonizing choices a patient with a life-threatening illness has to make is when to put quality of life ahead of length of life. Case in point: chemotherapy after breast-cancer surgery. Although the side effects of chemo (among them nausea, fatigue and hair loss) can be brutal, the treatment does work: patients who go through it will, on average, live longer. So I was surprised to read in the current issue of Annals of Internal Medicine that only 29% of breast-cancer patients actually take their doctor's advice and get chemotherapy after surgery. Even more striking...
...surveys the basketball court and confesses, "I don't see another Yao Ming here. We x-ray their hands when they're quite little, and from the length of the bones we can predict how tall they will grow to be. They all have the dream, but the fact is, we don't have anyone here who is going to grow above 2 meters." That's nearly 0.3 meter shorter than the orbiting Rocket rookie...
...associates three-course lunches with three-hour afternoon naps, the available options are uninspiring. There's nothing to rival the delis of New York City or the sandwich bars of London, with their encyclopedic variety of breads, rolls and fillings. All too often in Paris, a sandwich means a length of flaccid baguette, a soggy slice of factory-farmed ham and a smear of margarine masquerading as butter. As work habits get more hectic, Parisians have begun to realize that a light snack at midday is nothing to be ashamed of. Yet although the city has welcomed its hamburger restaurants...