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Small Worlds, Artworks That Create an Intimate Spaces: The Toledo Museum of Art challenges us to look at the world from new perspectives through its exhibition. "We may feel oversized when peering at Gregory Euclide’s miniature ecosystems, yet small and disoriented when we are surrounded by the video installation by Tabaimo"

CultureWatch: Swerve illuminates the fascinating nooks of antiquity, as well as the Renaissance, for the neophyte. This is the sort of book that, during these winter months, will bring the pleasure endorsed by Epicurus and Lucretius. Chef Supreme: Martin Ginsburg creates a paean to good food and its ability to create community; the recipes and tributes are rich, as was his life

Jill Norgren's Review of New York Met Opera's HD Live Performance of The Enchanted Island; Guile, sorcery, love, and rejection: This operatic pasticcio, drawing upon music composed by Handel, Vivaldi, and Rameau is a harvest basket of delights. Beautiful singing marks the production: DiDonato is outstanding, Domingo defies the years with his seemingly effortless excellence, and de Niese steals the first act with her impish portrayal and fine singing

Happy 150th Birthday, Edith Wharton! Break out a glass of champagne, don an antique jet-beaded jacket and celebrate Wharton's 150th birth anniversary. Read a book of Wharton's, watch the Age of Innocence or The Buccaneers and visit her home, the Mount

The Sunlight Foundation Shows Who Drove the Super Pac Contributions in 2011: Their Reporting Group combed through the filings, looking to see who's writing six- and seven-figure checks to the super PACs trying to influence voters in the Republican primaries — and beyond

Nancy Dawson: Rosemary, Arthur and Ben, On the Road to Mecca (Followed by Doug) — Could he please help me read Ben Brantley's review of Rosemary Harris in Athol Fugard's The Road to Mecca at the American Airlines Theater. Tried as he could, Julio couldn't get The Times to accept my bank card. He said, "There, there, call your bank because they can surely fix this for you"

Congressional Bills Introduced, Child Protection, Employment Compensation Brackets and Abortion: A bill to require a criminal background check for employees of child care providers; a bill to require an abortion provider to wait for a period of at least 24 hours; a measure to prevent Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) benefits from being used in strip clubs, casinos, and liquor stores

Rose Mula, The Power of Words: I no longer have a life. Feeding my obsession consumes my every waking minute. The moment I arise in the morning, the unquenchable craving seizes me. I understand why Alec Baldwin allowed himself to be thrown off a flight rather than turn off his I-Pad and terminate a Words game he was playing

Travel: Bill Would Require Independent Study of X-Ray Body Scanners — The peer-reviewed study, to be submitted to Congress, would evaluate the safety mechanisms on the machine and determine whether there are any biological signs of cellular damage caused by the scans

Roberta McReynolds asks, What If the Mayan Calendar Is Right? It’s become an annual tradition to create a calendar for a group of friends. We added an extra page of an illustration of the Mayan calendar with a ‘bucket list’ of things before the world is predicted to end in 2012. Contemplating the possibility of having a finite number of days left on earth might not be such a bad way to live

Julia Sneden, Befogged: On those foggy days my fine hair was plastered to my head, and my braids, having escaped from their soggy ribbons, began to unbraid themselves. I well remember the day my new red ribbons, the product of war-time dyes, got so fog-wet that the color ran, staining the ends of my blonde braids pink

Fleur Cowles, The Flower Game: What Ten Flowers Would You Take to a Lonely Island? Actress Candice Bergen’s list included wisteria and night-blooming jasmine, and she elaborated on her selections: “Flowers to see and smell — by day and night — that bloom underfoot and hang overhead, plus a few insect escorts — butterflies and caterpillars, the odd ladybug — for company”

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Ferida Wolff, Pirate Eyes: I currently have pirate eyes. That does not mean that I am covetous or lascivious or that I desire to pillage. It means that I am looking through one eye at a time as I try to function day by day, at least for the next two weeks.

The Silent Disease, How Often Should Women Have Bone Tests? A study of nearly 5,000 women reports that patients with healthy bone density on their first test might safely wait 15 years before getting rescreened. “Our study found it would take about 15 years for 10% of women in the highest bone density ranges to develop osteoporosis. That was longer than we expected, and it's great news for this group of women”

Where Doesn't It Hurt? Women Report Feeling More Pain Than a Man: While results tended to confirm previous clinical findings — i.e., that female fibromyalgia or migraine patients report more pain than their male counterparts — the search unearthed unreported gender differences in pain intensity in, for example, acute sinusitis and “cervical spine disorders,” more commonly known as neck pain

A Web Resource Designed By Doctors Helps Them Calculate Life Expectancy in Older Patients: A team led by researchers from the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the UC, San Francisco has completed the first systematic review of prognostic indices used to calculate a patient’s life expectancy, and created a website that puts these indices in one central location

Freddie Mac Bets Against American Homeowners: The taxpayer-owned mortgage giant has placed multibillion-dollar bets that pay off if homeowners stay trapped in expensive mortgages with interest rates well above current rates. Freddie contends it is “actively supporting efforts for borrowers to realize the benefits of refinancing their mortgages to lower rates”

Fed Reserve Governor Elizabeth Duke Suggests Some Housing Market Recovery Proposals : "Although there is no miracle cure here, these actions have the potential to help the economy recuperate more quickly than I currently expect it to, moving us closer to full employment sooner and improving the lives of many Americans."

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