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Baggalini Urban Backpack: Developed by two retired Delta Airlines flight attendants, this versatile bag converts from a shoulder bag to backpack by unzipping and rehooking the shoulder strap. Interior has numerous compartments for items you normally carry in your wallet plus slots for your cell phone and pen and zippered spaces for coins and cosmetics. Two exterior pockets zip shut. Magnetic catch at top of bag conceals the zipper ends of main compartment. And there's still room for a small book and a bottle of water.

MIT's Age Lab: The Future is Gray, Small and Female

A vivid portrait of the near future when great numbers of people, mainly women, will not only live longer, but alone. In the US, many of these seniors expect to continue working and playing, sometimes battling chronic illness, but above all, maintaining independence and freedom

Criticism

Until we learn to respect each other and each other?s points of view on everything from religion and politics to butter versus margarine, we will neither grow nor grow up. It is not necessary that we agree, nor that we all like each other, though I admit it?s easier when we do.

A Creative Pair in Collage and Fashion

"A long time collector of ?things' Peter trawls the markets with his wife textile designer Karen Nicol and collects old stamps, faded maps, love letters, labels, buttons, dress making patterns, playing cards, textiles cotton webbing that binds books and paper boxes for the basis of his work"

Book Review: You Came Here to Die, Didn't You?

It?s always easier to write about the causes of fear than every-day drudgery, and the author?s descriptions of these scares and others make her summer sound exciting ? in both senses of the word. She does this as though she?s writing a novel; her account of these events is gripping.

The Shakespeare Portrait Question at the Morgan; Battle of Wills Documentary

When the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust unveiled a portrait with strong claims to be the only surviving contemporary likeness of Shakespeare, it created an international stir. But wait, there's another claim about a 1603 portrait created by an ancestor who was a bit actor in Shakespeare?s troupe

Bard's Cloisonne: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties

Their gilded surfaces and brilliant colors put them at odds with the austere criteria of the scholars' aesthetic from the Song dynasty. In 1368 Cao Zhao wrote that cloisonné enamels were not suitable for study by members of the scholar class and were really appropriate only for the apartments of women

Second Chances Underscore Flaws in Death Investigations

Dr. Thomas Gill's ability to resurrect his career time and again reflects a profound weakness at the center of the US system of death investigation. A chronic shortage of qualified forensic pathologists allows even questionably competent practitioners to remain employable

Pulp Fashion: The Art of Isabelle de Borchgrave

Taking inspiration from the rich depictions in early European paintings, iconic costumes in museum collections, photographs, sketches and even literary descriptions, de Borchgrave skillfully works paper to achieve the effect of textiles: crumpling, pleating, braiding, feathering and painting the surface.

Puzzling

As a lifelong addict of puzzle-solving, or at least of taking a whack at it, I?ve been delighted to note that nowadays neurologists and gerontologists recommend that we seniors keep our minds sharp by doing crossword puzzles. To me, that?s a bit like giving a chocolate lover the key to the Godiva factory

HBS's Working Knowledge, Terror at the Taj

"Not even the senior managers could explain the behavior of these employees," says Deshpandé. "In the interview, the vice chairman of the company says that they knew all the back exits ? the natural human instinct would be to flee. These are people who instinctively did the right thing. And in the process, some of them, unfortunately, gave their lives to save guests." A dozen employees died

Between Dusk and Bedtime: Suppressing a Sleep Hormone

Room light before bedtime may impact sleep quality, blood pressure and diabetes risk; new study shows indoor lighting has profound suppressive effect on the hormone melatonin.

Women and Retirement Risk

Forty-six percent of retired women are more likely to expect to pay for assistance than retired men (34 percent), during the less active, somewhat limited stage of retirement. Additionally, 70 percent of retired women are more likely to rely on family or community services for help than retired men, during the least active stage of retirement

Travel: Vietnam Today

Half a century later, my husband and I decided to visit the country we had so long ago feared. When I told our friends that we were going to Vietnam I could see the question in their eyes. Why, of all places, did we want to go there? They had painful memories, too. And to be honest, I was concerned about how Americans would be viewed all these years later.

Managing Financial Goals: Study on Investment Advisers and Broker-Dealers

"the standard of conduct for all brokers, dealers, and investment advisers, when providing personalized investment advice about securities to retail customers ... shall be to act in the best interest of the customer without regard to the financial or other interest of the broker, dealer, or investment adviser providing the advice"

GOP Introduces Four Anti-Abortion Bills Into Congress; Other Women's Issues at Risk

The Republican Party?s capture of the House of Representatives has feminists worried. As the 112th Congress convened, feminists held meetings and rallies all over the nation?s capitol where they spoke about Republican plans to reduce or dismantle programs that protect women.

CultureWatch, January 2011 Edition

Cleopatra: A Life ? In the end, we must ask ourselves if Stacy Schiff, one of the most gifted American biographers currently writing, has successfully peeled away two millennia of myth and propaganda or, rather, given us a new myth, a Cleopatra who fits modern, Western feminist thinking. In the Pursuit of Happiness ? To call Maria Kalman's work idiosyncratic isn?t nearly powerful enough to describe what she has produced. It is an explosion of such brilliance that one scarcely knows where to start

Short in Stature, Tall in Tone

It wasn?t the reading of my weight that terrified me. After a lifetime of dieting (skip birth to age 10), for the past half dozen years I?ve held steady at 104. Poundage was not the problem. It was the ruler she was about to pull up, then down, then down again, to measure my height.

Knitting a Puppy? Stitches Events and Unravel 2011

We haven't added a new dog to our family since our Puli had to be put down. But we were intrigued by the related items we found in the latest Selvedge Magazine. For instance, the intriguing aspect of knitting our own dog

Wanted: Celebrity Parents

I am seeking a new mother or father ? preferably one who hosts a popular TV show (think Oprah ? any of the ladies on The View ? Regis before he leaves) on which he or she can plug my newest book. You know what I mean

YouTube for How To?s: Just-In-Time Learning

My husband was standing on my desk, replacing the dead ceiling light fixture in my office. He?d taken down the old fixture, and two frayed wires were sticking out. The new fixture had a t…

The Diary: Three Centuries of Private Lives at the Morgan Library

For centuries, people have turned to private journals to document their days, sort out creative problems, help them through crises, comfort them in solitude or pain, or preserve their stories for the future. "The museum is noted for its holdings of manuscripts, sketches, letters, drawings, and other items that speak to the creative mind at work"

The Function of Laughter at the US Supreme Court

"I argue that laughter plays an important social and communicative function in Supreme Court oral arguments that enables advocates and justices to negotiate the complex institutional, social, and intellectual barriers to obtain brief moments of equality within the Courtroom"

The Web Collaboration Project at the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender

As part of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender collaborated with Women's History faculty from twelve institutions across the country. That gave students the opportunity to do research on women in social movements in the US

Searching JFK's Digital Archive

Caroline Kennedy: "And as they discover the heroes of the civil rights movement, the pioneers of outer space, and the first Peace Corps volunteers, we hope they too are inspired to ask what they can do for their country."

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