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When chemotherapy failed seven-year-old Emily, her doctors turned to a daring last resort: a re-engineered HIV retrovirus enlisted to attack her cancer cells. The risky alternative made the little girl sicker still before transforming everything.
A decade ago, during a London cab ride shortly after 9/11, Kuwaiti business graduate Dr Naif Al-Mutawa conceived a comic featuring Islamic superheroes. Rather than complain about Islam's image, he set out to reshape it.
Talking to Dr Jack Shaheen about the negative images of Arabs in American popular culture reveals stereotypes stretching back a century. Meet the man who singlehandedly set out to rewrite a people's portrayal on screen.
None of his friends wore one, nor did his circles demand it, yet our writer became an unlikely innovator. He confesses his enduring, stealthy obsession with the silk pocket square he simply cannot abandon.
Operating beyond the law in unlicensed premises, supper clubs sidestep prosecution by inviting contributions rather than charging set prices, often byo. We explore the two traditions, from the convivial book-club style to something altogether more ambitious.
Since 2009 Kickstarter has raised over 680 million dollars for so-called great ideas, letting anyone with a half-baked plan post a video and breathless text. Our writer surveys the platform's gloriously misguided marketing.
From company headquarters in Japan to a launch party in New York, our writer remains a committed Lexus fan. The entry-level IS C is spot on, yet the marque's bolder ambitions give him pause.
Inspired by Sojourner's images of the Martian surface in 1997, Bas Lansdorp resolved to go there himself. He explains how each piece of the puzzle fell into place, prompting him to found Mars One.
The world may credit Coco Chanel with changing the face of fashion and introducing us to the little black dress, the pea jacket and trousers for women but she also played an integral role in transforming our appreciation of jewellery. The opening salvo of Coco Chanel’s war on jewellery …
Chopard may not have changed their name when they switched family ownership but a lot did change when artistic director and co-president, Caroline Scheufele set up her haute jewellery collections, expanding the company’s reach from ladies’ watches to eco-jewellery. Everything about Caro…
Currently chairing the jury responsible for selecting, each year, one of the most prestigious recognitions of architectural mastery, the Pritzker Prize, Lord Peter Palumbo spends much of his life travelling the world, visiting the great works created by today’s shapers of space. For dec…
Inventor of the boutique hotel concept, Ian Schrager saw the future of the hotel industry before it came. Now, he goes even further by turning the concept on its head, redefining the notion of a boutique experience as being a matter of size. Miami. June 10. Monday. A rumpled visionary, …