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These days, you almost have to venture backwards in time to find pictures of life redeemed in spite of or because of depravity, dishonesty, error. The ancient Greeks, Shakespeare, Hardy, Austen, even Sinclair Lewis or Harper Lee ... make your own list had so much more to say than just calling attention to or bewailing or glorifying what least deserves it in what we like to call civilization.
"The airport X-ray scanners have escaped the oversight required for X-ray machines used in doctors’ offices and hospitals. The reason is that the scanners do not have a medical purpose, so the FDA cannot subject them to the rigorous evaluation it applies to medical devices"
The state aims to abandon the impersonal and fragmented way most people receive health services today. In its place, the state hopes, will be community-based systems that resemble the way medicine was practiced a century ago, when doctors made home visits
Imagine tapping into the mind of a coma patient, or watching one’s own dream on YouTube. With a cutting-edge blend of brain imaging and computer simulation, scientists at the UC Berkeley, are bringing these futuristic scenarios within reach
The Cleveland Museum of Art presents the first major museum exhibition of contemporary photographer Brian Ulrich’s work from a decade-long examination of the American consumer psyche.
Pissarro’s People explores the three dimensions of the artist's life that are essential to a full understanding of the human element in his art: his family ties, his friendships and his intense intellectual involvement with the social and political theories of his time
Whether we look at metrics in the workplace such as the gender gap in wages, or the participation of women male dominated fields, the paid labor market, and state-level politics, measures of equality have remained relatively constant since the mid 1990s
My friend Abigail was born in the wrong era and place. She would have been much happier living in an age uncontaminated by technological abominations; she thinks ATM machines are an invention of the devil
The Older Women’s Economic Security Task Force in a letter to President Obama called for the concerns of women to be considered in budget talks to reduce the deficit. "It is simply not enough to send a few privileged men to the table to ‘solve’ the nation’s budget problem"
We used our Global Entry RFID-enabled card for expedited entry for the first time: "Enrolled users must present their machine-readable Passport or permanent residency card and submit their fingerprints to establish identity. Users then complete a computerized Customs Declaration, and are issued a receipt ...
A new report's conclusion: Most women with screen-detected breast cancer have not had their life saved by screening. They are instead either diagnosed early (with no effect on their mortality) or overdiagnosed.
Zuirch's Museum Rietberg presents a culturally comparative exhibition on mysticism, illustrated by the example of forty male and female mystics: their lives and writings demonstrate how richly varied spiritual experience can be
A proposed rule to the Freedom of Information Act would allow federal agencies to tell people requesting certain law-enforcement or national security documents that records don’t exist – even when they do, writes ProPublica
Romney went too far in claiming that government insurance didn’t play a role in the health care overhaul he signed into law as governor of Massachusetts; the plan expanded Medicaid. Perry was wrong that his state created more jobs in the last two months than Massachusetts did in four years under Romney.
There are so many reasons in our world to focus on the negative, to allow joy to withdraw or wither. These bushes thrive no matter what and express themselves in beauty and persistence. They are a vibrant life-force, as enticing as I remember.
In Jane Fonda; The Private Life of a Public Woman, Bosworth explores the ambivalences of Jane Fonda as artist, romantic, businesswoman, femme fatale, and partly finished intellectual. Red Grooms' Marlborough Gallery show, New York: 1976-2011, is a madcap collection of paintings, sculptures and walk-through "sculpto-pictoramas" depicting the high-life, low-life and in-between-life of the metropolis
"From Providence, Rhode Island's historic College Hill neighborhood and St. Louis's revitalized Washington Avenue to Tacoma, Washington's Point Defiance old-growth forest and park and Colorado Springs, Colorado's Garden of the Gods Park, Great Places reflect a tremendous amount of history, diversity and economic vitality."
“In response to a 20/20 broadcast earlier this year and a previous congressional hearing, OIG [Office of the Inspector General] has initiated a review of the agency’s guidelines for responding to rape and major sexual assault, which is ongoing."
The heros of the TBAD conference were the public employees of Wisconsin and Ohio. The Freedom Plaza protest had been months in the planning by anti-war activists and they began calling themselves Stop the Machine; Occupy DC set up shop in an effort to show solidarity with Occupy Wall Street
Plenty of other states [aside from Ohio] this year, including Delaware, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming, cut direct state aid, revenue sharing, or funds for specific local services
In the US, there is UC Santa Cruz and the Dickens Universe and Project. In London, an exhibit that display examines the central relationship between Dickens and the city that he described as his ‘magic lantern’
In collaboration with British heiress Angela Boudrett-Coudetts, Dickens founded Urania Cottage, a shelter for "fallen women" — that is, prostitutes and low-level criminals. Letters to Boudrett-Coudetts reveal a compassionate, hands-on manager intent on offering a safe haven to, and rehabilitating, the residents of the "Asylum," beginning with the clothes on their backs
A new research study shows that worrying can be so intrusive and obsessive that it interferes in the person’s life and endangers the health of social relationships; the negative methods they use to cope — from over nurturing to extreme detachment — may be destructive
This project seeks to tell the stories of people who have not been included in earlier accounts: technical writers who created the documentation for the Mac; marketing people; enthusiasts who organized user groups; industry analysts and journalists who wrote about it
Inspired by the Lux Radio Theatre of the 1930’s and 40’s, Gotham Radio Theatre brings the experience of actors performing in vintage radio style. Masterpiece plays and screenplays are performed live, by an ensemble of actors and sound performers as if you were in a radio sound stage
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