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CultureWatch: 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 Val Castronovo, Michelangelo's First Painting; a little-known work has its American premiere at the Met — Tell-tale signs that the work is that of the master himself: the use of the colors apple green and lavender, later employed in the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel Julia Sneden, Hard Copy: These letters from the mid-1800s are from and to my great grandparents. They give a vivid glimpse into how different a woman's life was, in the mid-nineteenth century, but they are also testimony to the universality of human relations Recently, The New York Times ran an article on Ray Bradbury and his lifelong enthusiasm for "halls of books." We thought that peg enough of a reason to reprise an article by a departed and enthusiastic supporter of seniorwomen.com, Jean Pond: Lunch With a Legend A collection of jewels and maritime decorative art, including tattooing: A locket's miniature bears the inscription, Nelson For Ever Huzza; the back of an ivory brooch bears the name and date 'Emma Hamilton 1803'; and King George V in 1882 is given a dragon tattoo in Japan Joan L. Cannon, How To ...? Have you noticed the upswing in the numbers of books on how to live well, richly, generously, spiritually, fulfilled ... and on and on? I wouldn't dare to presume to know what would be useful for strangers. I'd make a terrible missionary The Art of Babbling — Brice Marden informs about his painting, Cold Mountain, the NYPL highlights its Art Deco Paul Poiret fashion images and Paul Law lectures on The Abundant Childhood: Nature, Creativity & Health Rose Mula, The Woes of a Single Humor Writer: I did try to join one of those couples swap clubs advertised on the Internet — purely for research purposes, of course; but they refused me membership when they investigated and found out about me. Not that I’m a writer, but that I didn’t have a mate to swap |
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Rochelle Schwab, Will These Parents Destroy Your Family? 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? Women of Note: ‘You and more than 900 of your sisters have shown you can fly wingtip to wingtip with your brothers. I salute you . . . We of the Army Air Force are proud of you. We will never forget our debt to you’ The Disturbing Afterlife of Discarded Digital Electronics: PBS' Frontline reveals the dirty secret of dumping electronic waste around the world and "a potentially serious data security threat, as criminal gangs attempt to harvest data from the West’s old computers and cell phones" The Needs of Women Veterans Addressed: Within 10 years, women are expected to become 10 percent of the VA’s patient population and are seeking VA health care at a faster rate than male counterparts. They are also younger and of child-bearing age. Is the VA ready? |
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What Motivated Us: Sex, a Paul Bloom lecture: "We don't actually spend that much time on sex. The four minutes and three seconds [for sex] is an interesting number because when you do times studies on how much Americans spend filling out tax-related forms for the IRS, it's four minutes and a few seconds" Reprising The Wedding Dress: Unlike modern wedding dresses that go to the dry cleaners after one wearing, for packing away until a daughter or grandchild might want to wear it, Abby’s dress became the dress she wore whenever she needed something dressier. Her wedding dress had been a hoop-skirted ivory silk but now Abby dyed it black Does It Pay to Be Smart, Attractive, or Confident (or All Three)? A study explores "Relationships Among General Mental Ability, Physical Attractiveness, Core Self-Evaluations, and Income" Ferida Wolff, Call Me Woman Who Swims With Turtles:They have always been seen as mystical creatures, a symbol of longevity and bring good luck into a house. Some say that if you dream of a turtle, it foretells of an incident that will bring amusement or an improvement in businesswedding band, for imaginary husbands deflect unwanted suitors |
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Shopping for Home at HistoricStyle - An Arts & Crafts destination provides fabric, wallpaper, cushions, metalwork, tiles and hardware. We liked the Voysey voile, MTV liked the wallpaper Decor Shopping Using Surface Graphics: From classic chairback graphics to lions and turtles and foxes, oh my! Consider a tropical, Polynesian retreat, a pixelated romper room or architectural details from a historic Savannah district Giftshopping at an Eco-friendly destination: The combination of floral enameled products with newly-popular-again Indigo and Batik items as well as kurtas for mothers and children make this an appealing site Sharon Kapnick, All in the Family: Five Producers of Good-Value Italian Wines — Other than family management, ingredients that go into these wines are passion, dedication, creativity, research, innovation, state-of-the-art technology, tradition and decades — even centuries! — of experience
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Current Reading: "Often even experienced doctors are unaware that 80-year-olds are not the same as 50-year-olds. Pneumonia in a 50-year-old causes fever, cough and difficulty breathing; an 80-year-old with the same illness may have none of these symptoms, but just seem “not herself” — confused and unsteady, unable to get out of bed" Six Patient Behaviors That Drive Doctors Nuts - "You get a husband and wife in a room, and one is overweight and one of them is not, and the other starts saying, 'See, I told you so,' if you talk about weight" Roberta McReynolds, It's a Gray Area, Part II: One section of the aisle was devoted to ending the ‘brassiness’ problem. I didn’t even know what brassiness was before walking into the store. Now I stood the risk of losing sleep over the fear my hair might look like an alloy of copper and zinc Wedding Traditions Exhibit : Queen Victoria's choice of a plain white satin dress and orange blossom wreath headdress with lace veil was shockingly plain by royal standards; Lady Diana Spencer's Victorian style dress befitted a fairy-tale princess Galileo's Instruments and the Outflow Water Clock: In the Franklin Institute's exhibit is one of those gorgeous brass astronomical instruments, a jewel-like armillary sphere; follow an online scientific itinerary in Tuscany Dermatologist Cynthia Bailey, Summer sun protection is much more than just picking the right sunscreen: I teach my patients to enjoy being outdoors and keep their skin safe. Sun protection information is complicated by vitamin D information such that even doctors are confused |
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A New EPI Snapshot: Mass layoffs at highest level since at least 1995 which could mean " a decline in the standard of living, limited future prospects, and significant psychological effects, such as low self-esteem and depression" Reverse Mortgages; The GAO Issues a Report: FHA provides this information free, and HUD-approved housing counseling agencies are available for free or at very low cost, to provide information, counseling, and a free referral to a list of FHA-approved lenders Retirement Reconsidered: Pew Research finds that 37% of full-time employed adults of all ages say they have thought in the past year about postponing their eventual retirement. This proportion swells to 52% among fulltime workers ages 50 to 64
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