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  • The Travel Bug Will Bite You If You Don’t Watch Out

    Rose Mula writes: Taking along your cell phone, laptop, Blackberry? Do you want to learn that your daughter is moving in with that loser she’s been dating; the nursing home is threatening to expel your grandfather because he was streaking the halls again; your company is downsizing and your job is on the line …?

  • A Lecture, What Motivates Us: Sex

    This excerpt is from a Yale lecture by Prof. Paul Bloom of Yale lecture entitled What Motivates Us: Sex. This lecture is one in a series and part of Academic Earth, a website that presents lectures by recognized (and usually talented) academics.
    The lecture can be accessed through a video and a transcript.

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  • Current Reading: The Patients Doctors Don’t Know

    “AS they do every July, hospitals across America are welcoming new interns, fresh from medical school graduation. Given how much these trainees have yet to learn, common wisdom holds that it’s not a good time of year to get sick. This may be particularly true for older patients, because American medical schools require no training in geriatric medicine.”

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  • Mass Layoffs & Psychological Effects

    The Economic Policy Institute’s Economic Snapshot for July 1, 2009 concerns employment: Mass layoffs at highest level since at least 1995, by Anna Turner and John Irons.

    Mass layoffs — job cuts of 50 or more people by a single employer — are at their highest since continuous tracking began in April 1995, according to recently released data from the U.S. Department of Labor. In May there were 2,933 mass layoffs, representing 312,880 of the jobs lost that month.

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  • The Wedding Dress

    Julia Sneden reprises: My great grandmother Abby dyed her wedding dress black, and proceeded to wear it for the rest of her life. When fashions changed, she remade it to suit the mode, from hoop to bustle to whatever the current style commanded. Despite bearing nine children, she remained tall and slender and able to fit into the dress.

  • CultureWatch

    Julia Sneden and Joan L. Cannon review: Frank Lloyd Wright chose spirited, intelligent women to share his life but he dominated and used his wives relentlessly as seen in The Women. It is Rita Dove’s poetic imagination and imagery that makes Sonata Mulattica such a rewarding read. The Elegance of the Hedgehog is so dense that it is good for several days’ reading; boring it is not.

  • CultureWatch

    Julia Sneden and Joan L. Cannon review: Frank Lloyd Wright chose spirited, intelligent women to share his life but he dominated and used his wives relentlessly as seen in The Women. It is Rita Dove’s poetic imagination and imagery that makes Sonata Mulattica such a rewarding read. The Elegance of the Hedgehog is so dense that it is good for several days’ reading; boring it is not.

  • Will These Parents Destroy Your Family?

    Rochelle Schwab writes: I’m continually astonished to read letters-to-the-editor, blogs and op-eds attacking my nephew’s family as a threat to every other family in America. How could anyone call these two loving people and their little boy a threat to the well-being of other families? (more…)

  • Home Shopping: Historic Styling

    A shop that specializes in the Arts & Crafts movement has applications that are current for custom sewing projects. For example, the English striped materials available for deck or lawn chairs are simple to sew and smart. Style Art Nouveau is exemplified by the section devoted to Samuel Bing who opened a Paris shop in 1895, La Maison de l’Art Nouveau (literally — The House of the New Art), therefore granting an unofficial name to the style of design that had been developing in Europe since the 1880’s. (more…)

  • Michelangelo’s First Painting; a little-known work has its American premiere at the Met

    Val Castronovo writes: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has unveiled what it believes to be Michelangelo’s first painting, one of only four such canvases attributed to the master sculptor and creator of the Sistine Chapel ceiling. (more…)