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...children the gene that currently protects about 1% of the population from developing AIDS when infected with HIV. Where it gets trickier is when we figure out what are the naturally occurring genes that put some people at the upper end of the statistical bell curve for intelligence or talent of some kind. It's human nature to give your kids any advantage you can, and once this becomes theoretically possible, the pressure to allow it will become enormous. I suspect it won't be cheap, even in 50 years, but it might be on a par with buying...
...finally be ready to stand up again. After years of watching imports like the Strokes and the Hives redefine neopunk, Britain has a plausible response in the Libertines, who add a distinctive English twist. Mike Skinner - the white rapper who calls himself the Streets - is a young, original talent who could hold his own against Eminem, with less obscenity. But for many, the U.K. music industry can't be deemed officially revived until it gets its groove back in the world's biggest market. Since the Beatles touched down at J.F.K. Airport in 1964, wave upon wave of British musicians...
Violence, debauchery, popes, emperors, gods, martyrs, a cardinal's mistress - Titian's work encompassed them all. He had talent to burn and his sensuous paintings were a must-have for the élite of Renaissance Europe. Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) became Venice's official painter in 1516, and was top in Europe until his death in 1576 aged (he claimed) ninetysomething. "Titian," a banquet of his major works harvested from leading European and American galleries, can be savored at London's National Gallery from Feb. 19 through May 18, and - in slightly different form - at the Prado, Madrid, from June...
Offensively, the Big Red is led by the talent of junior guard Karen Force. Force is averaging 19.5 points in league play—tied for third best with Altman—and had a career high 29 against Penn last weekend...
...Weekly round-up of popular romance novelists. In a piece entitled “Write Fiercely, Harvard” she balked at an editor’s smug and incredulous announcement that a Harvard grad wrote romance novels. “I don’t think that writing talent has much to do with where one went to school, or the number of degrees on one’s business card, but I do get a bit bristly at the implication that romance authors couldn’t possibly be smart enough to get into an Ivy League school...