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Julia Sneden, Lessons From a Lifetime In the Classroom: You and I, Me, Us, They, Them, Whatever! "Just seeing your face at Mike and I’s wedding ..." Unbelievable, you say? Even more unbelievable is the fact that the writer is a graduate student at a major university. The child obviously doesn’t lack brains; what she lacks is proper training in the use of her native tongue Portraits in Diguise and Imagined Lives: We are confronted by images of people who are making the most of clothes and jewels to reinforce their powerful presence. Records suggest that Elizabeth I had fake jewels on her clothes that were recycled with new clothes Folger Library's Digital Image Collection and Shop: A true relation of a most desperate murder committed upon the body of Sir John Tindall Knight, one of the maisters of the Chancery; who with a pistoll charged with 3. bullets, was slaine going into his chamber within Lincolnes-Inne. At the shop a Queen Elizabeth pot belly, The Tainted Muse and tea hearts CultureWatch: For anyone enamored of English literature in general and its romantic poets in particular, Young Romantics is a treasure. The Anthologist has a rather bittersweet plot, but includes more criticism, philosophy, and satire than ordinary fiction. Following the Water is actually poetry in prose and science as art, including philosophy and religion without confrontation. The New York Times Practical Guide to Practically Everything is a treat for all who enjoy trivia; a fine resource for straightforward and authoritative information Reader's Delight, an Exhibit: Mamiko Otsubo's enigmatic masks collaged from the pages and covers of art history books, Donna Ruff's Rorschach-like patterns burned on the pages of Freud, Tom Burckhardt's re-purposed book covers used as grounds for his fanciful paintings, and Yohei Nishimura's kiln-fired de-accessioned books |
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Questions and Answers About The 'Ground Zero Mosque': FactCheck.org has set out to separate fact from fiction as it relates to what the center’s sponsors call the Park51 project, and what detractors refer to somewhat inaccurately as the "Ground Zero Mosque" Jo Freeman Reviews Mother Jones: Raising Cain and Consciousness: Her fame grew not just because she was a very effective woman in a man’s world but because of her creative use of street theater and of womanhood itself. Her work made her an ardent opponent of child labor, but not a supporter of woman suffrage, which she saw as a distraction from class struggle Nichola Gutgold, Preliminary Polling Results, Hillary Clinton made believers out of more young women than did Sarah Palin: There is evidence that more young women were encouraged by the presidential race of Hillary Clinton than by Sarah Palin's VP bid. The poll asks women to reflect about whether or not the campaigns of these national female politicians made them believe that there would be a woman president in her lifetime |
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Joan L. Cannon, Love, an Inspiration ... or Not? We have the meaning that leaps first to modern minds for the Greek eros. It may be interesting to note how our current reaction to "Love" is either to its insignificance as in, "I love spaghetti," or to the assumption that sexual attraction is what is meant Nichola Gutgold: Why Doesn't the Social Page Tell the Better Story? Sometimes I read about a couple well into the later part of middle age who have been married. It doesn't taint my enjoyment whatsoever to read that "the bride and bridegroom's previous (several) marriages ended in divorce." I believe in love The PBS Program, This Emotional Life: "We meet individuals facing major turning points in their lives — a job loss, a cancer diagnosis, the death of a child, an accident — as well as those facing more common struggles. We learn from the latest research that we often incorrectly predict what will bring us greater happiness, leading us to look for it in the wrong places" |
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Sharon Kapnick, Too Good to Miss: 2009 Beaujolais — A Once-in-a-Lifetime Vintage: Although 2003 and 2005 were excellent vintages, 2009 is thought by many to be the best vintage since 1947. Everything — cooperative weather, perfect harvest conditions — seemed to come together perfectly to produce ripe, healthy Gamay grapes Home Design, A Virtual Tearsheet Folder Online: With a website, you can browse photos, get ideas from hundreds of designers from around the world, and save it all in your virtual idea book. It's the online version of cutting pages out of magazines and stuffing them in a folder, which makes it much easier to search, save, and share Man Shops Globe, Sundance Channel Online: In out-of-the-way antique shops, private dealerships and craft stalls, Keith Johnson, an at-large buyer for the Anthropologie chain of popular clothing and home decorating stores, looks for one-of-a-kind home furnishings and accessories at the ends-of-the-earth flea markets and art studios Shopping for School Supplies, Backpacks & Lunch Boxes: The EWG's list of those supplies that could contain materials that are toxic for kids and harmful to the environment. Learn which to avoid and how to pick safer alternatives Art By the Yard at the Textile Museum; Find Stylish Items at the Museum Shop: As Britain’s design industry was regaining momentum, Lucienne Day, Jacqueline Groag and Marian Mahler dared to offer a fresh approach to textile design in an era dominated by male professional artists. Their products shaped the national aesthetic and offer artistic inspiration and delight today. Explore the shop's stylish items, including miniature quilt pins Rose Mula, Too Much of a Good Thing: My three spacious closets are jammed with pants, skirts, sweaters, shirts and dresses — many of which I haven’t worn in a decade. Others still have price tags from stores that went out of business five years ago. Apparently they lost their appeal on the trip from the shops to home. If I cleared my closets of that stuff, I’d have someplace to put my vacuum cleaner. Maybe all three of them, in fact |
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Current Reading, Indoor Tanning — Science, Behavior, and Policy: A dramatic association has been found between exposure to UV radiation and non-melanoma skin cancers — metastasis persistently occurs in a small minority of such lesions, at which point cure is rare An abstract from the UK's Journal of Medical Ethics: The role of doctors' religious faith and ethnicity in taking ethically controversial decisions during end-of-life care The FDA's Recall (and approval) Week: One half billion eggs, Moonstruck Chocolate, Mr. Magic Male Enhancer, frozen mamey pulp and an approved emergency contraceptive Care At Home, In the Backyard: The MedCottage can be purchased or leased and temporarily placed on the caregiving family’s property with features that most hospital and nursing home rooms are denied. Like an RV, it connects to a single-family house's electrical and water supplies What the GAO Found, Formaldehyde in Textiles: "The health risk of greatest concern associated with formaldehyde in clothing — allergic contact dermatitis — stems from dermal exposure. A form of eczema, allergic contact dermatitis affects the immune system and produces reactions characterized by rashes, blisters, and flaky, dry skin that can itch or burn" |
A CRR Brief, Problems with State-Local Final Pay Plans: Final pay plans suffer from serious shortcomings: they (1) severely “backload” benefits; (2) treat very differently workers on different career trajectories; and (3) invite mischief in terms of sudden late-career promotions. They are also riskier for workers than they appear FTC and the Clean Credit Report Court Order: Clean Credit often debited $400 from consumers’ bank accounts before receiving a signed contract, and then did little, if anything, to fulfill its promises Socially Networked: Older Users Flocking to Facebook and Twitter: Internet users ages 50-64 who said they use a social networking site like MySpace, Facebook or LinkedIn grew 88% and those ages 65 and older grew 100% in their adoption of the sites, compared with a growth rate of 13% for those ages 18-29 Time to Reconsider Texting? Using Daily-Text Message Reminders To Improve Adherence With Oral Contraceptives: Objective: To estimate whether women receiving daily text-message reminders have increased oral contraceptive pill adherence compared with women not receiving reminders |
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