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Culture, Mischief in the Mansion: It's going to be a long weekend, especially that Super-Bowl Sunday, so pull up a chair, put down that Twitter, erase that impulsive Facebook addition, and after a trip to the bookstores, library or a Kindle version, read classic (and mostly true) tales of betrayal, lust, infidelity, hurt, and strength A Collaboration: The Science and Entertainment Exchange: The National Academy of Sciences "provides entertainment industry professionals with access to top scientists and engineers to help bring the reality of cutting-edge science to creative and engaging storylines" Mirror Mirror, Self-portraits By Women Artists & On The Nature of Women, Tudor and Jacobean Portraits of Women: "There was much debate about female nature with male writers characterising women as either shrewish and prone to vice or faithful and prudent. The women featured in the display range from dutiful wives and mothers to those tainted by scandal and intrigue" Julia Sneden, A Year by Any Other Name is Still a Year: For several days around the turn of the year, the media folks seemed to be very concerned with what the world should call the year 2010. Rarely has so small a matter occasioned such a lot of hot air as this supposedly momentous decision: Will it be “Two Thousand and Ten,” or “Twenty-ten?” History and the Slocum Mechanical Puzzles: In the Niagara Puzzle with File and Compass, the player was directed to "Roll all the balls from the bank into the whirlpool. The hack saw blade and the compass, along with a map, were hidden inside Journet puzzles that were sent to British soldiers in German prison camps during WWI to help them escape" CultureWatch: P.D. James, in Talking About Detective Fiction, writes "if it is true, as the evidence suggests, that the detective story flourishes best in the most difficult of times, we may well be at the beginning of a new Golden Age." The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk is from the outset a book arranged by artifice. Our reviewer notes, "It is the first book I’ve read where the author inserts himself so directly" Rose Mula, I Love You ... What's Your Name? Though Muriel enjoys her boyfriend’s attention, it isn’t enough to distract her from remembering the thing we wish she would forget — that she desperately wants to go home. I tell her, “But you’d miss George.” “I’m taking him with me. But I’ve told him that I’m not having any babies” |
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Don't Ask, Don't Tell By the Numbers: "The CIA, State Department, FBI, and Secret Service all allow gay men and women to serve openly without any hamper on effectiveness or quality." " Even the British, whose military structure and deployment patterns are most similar to ours — and who fiercely resisted allowing gays to serve in the military — were forced to do so by the European Court of Human Rights, and have now seamlessly integrated them Video and Transcript of the Presidential Q&A with Republicans: "These are serious times, and what's required by all of us — Democrats and Republicans — is to do what's right for our country, even if it's not always what's best for our politics. I know it may be heresy to say this, but there are things more important than good poll numbers ... A middle class that's back on its feet, an economy that lifts everybody up, an America that's ascendant in the world — that's more important than winning an election" FactCheck.org Critiques the SOTU Speech & Republican Response: "President Obama peppered his State of the Union address to Congress and the nation with facts, which were mostly right but sometimes cherry-picked, strained or otherwise misleading. The Republican response had its problems, too." Note: Isaac Mizrahi's dress for The First Lady a hit, though Nichola Gutgold reviews Gender and Political Communication in America: Editor Janis Edwards examines the senate campaign films of Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Dole; Wendy Atkins-Sayre explores gender issues surrounding Gov. Jane Swift who discovered that pregnancy and power were mutually exclusive for women politicians; Christina Standerfer explores the issue of lesbian identity in politics with Annise Parker’s and Kathy Webb’s campaigns. Edwards and Mary Kahl offer a timely analysis of Sarah Palin’s vice presidential campaign and conservative political pundit Ann Coulter is the topic of essays that describes her rhetoric as a diatribe |
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Jane Shortall, Dazzling All Comers: Apparently, studies have shown that the people who do better, who go on to really enjoy and thrive in old age, are women who write, and those who started late in life have a marvelous future ahead of them, because they have so much to say. What a marvelous thought Joanna Grossman in Writ, Common-Law Marriage: A 19th c Relic With continuing Relevance: It is a device that still functions as an alternative way to form a marriage – or to claim with hindsight that one was formed in the past. And given the legal significance of marital status, as the determinant of a wide variety of rights and obligations, we forget about common-law marriage at our peril The Rise of Wives; Pew Researches The New Economics of Marriage: The decline in marriage rates has been steepest for the least educated, especially men, and smallest for college graduates, especially women. College graduates, the highest earners, are more likely today to be married than are Americans with less education Joan L. Cannon, Stumbling on Secrets: I confess to a psychic shiver of guilt about investigating what I realized was apt to be personal, but there was no question of resisting such a temptation. I sat back on my heels and lifted the dozen or so envelopes out, closed the trunk lid so I could set them down, and opened the one on top |
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Sharon Kapnick reviews Robert Parker Jr.'s new book, Parker’s Wine Bargains: The World’s Best Wine Values Under $25.00: Here he suggests many “under-the-radar, superb wine bargains that taste as if they should cost two or three times the price....” The Food You Eat: False claims, ingredient obfuscations, and other labeling shenanigans — Can orange juice really help prevent or treat arthritis? That's the implication on the label of a Minute Maid orange juice fortified with glucosamine hydrochloride "designed to help protect healthy joints" The Potent Plant Garden, Patterned After Agatha Christie's Novels: "While this might sound extremely dangerous for staff and public alike we have been very careful in our choice of plants, substituting less potent garden cultivars where possible,"says Ali Marshall, head gardener, Torre Abbey, Devon. "This is a garden designed to entertain — not provide murderous opportunities!" Roberta McReynolds, Doesn't Everyone have a Bird in Their Earring? I designed my tattoo with a male English House Sparrow balanced inside the oval of a gold circle like my trademark earrings of long ago. It looked so right to me, how everything seems to come full circle and reach completion. I added a glint of light to the ringlet, a small star which was a symbol I’d been attracted to throughout my life Margaret Cullison: Val’s Refrigerator Rolls, Vernie’s Brunch Casserole, Cherry Pie with Crisco Crust and Danish Puff: Mom had always enjoyed her female friends; they mattered even more after my father's death and included two unmarried sisters who lived in their Danish grandparents house. As Mom adapted to being a single woman, her friendship with them deepened Reynolda House American Art & Gardens; Twig Reading, Mustardseed Moonshine Ramekins and Molly Dingledine Jewelry: "The property shall be perpetually held ... for the operation and maintenance of a botanical garden having an aesthetic and educational value..." |
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Dr. Cynthia Bailey, A Dermatologist's Tips for Dry, Flaky Skin On the Scalp; It's the Season for Seborrheic Dermatitis: Patients commonly misinterpret the redness and scale of seborrhea as dry skin. They layer on moisturizers, which of course don’t improve the condition because seborrhea is a rash, not dry skin; it's a frustrating, confusing and at times embarrassing rash and is more common as we age Excerpt from The Immortal Life of Henrietta Sacks: "In 1951 Henrietta Lacks was diagnosed with cervical cancer — a strangely aggressive type, unlike any her doctor had ever seen. He took a small tissue sample without her knowledge or consent. A scientist put that sample into a test tube, and, though Henrietta died eight months later, her cells — known worldwide as HeLa — are still alive today V&A's Cleaning Conundrum, Manchu 'Horse-Hoof' Shoes and The Invisibles: "The condition of the costume at the time of purchase was startling. The hem of the skirt was black inside and out ... There was extensive water-borne staining throughout; the proper left sleeve of the jacket and front of the skirt both had large stains down their entire length that had hardened to the consistency of cardboard... The waist of the skirt had been taken apart and cobbled together again in haphazard gathers" Magical Makeup: There’s more to the eye makeup that gave Queen Nefertiti and other ancient Egyptian royals those stupendous gazes and legendary beauty than meets the eye. Scientists in France are reporting that the alluring eye makeup also may have been used to help prevent or treat eye disease by doubling as an infection-fighter Fashion for all ages in The Guardian: Now that editorial content is reminding people to a nauseating degree that the 'boomers are coming' (could we please lose that overworked expression), why are we not seeing more older women in clothing, hairstyle and makeup layouts? Perhaps US fashion editors might take a tip from their British counterparts |
A New CBS Reality Show Undercover Boss and an original job innovator, Jack Coleman: In the '70s an economics PhD, college president and co-education advocate becomes a waste collector; Waste Management's Larry O'Donnell and Hooters' Presidents Coby Brooks take on undercover roles EPI Economic Snapshot Roundup: A Massive Earnings Gap, Job Creation & Spending Freeze: The data show that over the past three decades more than one-third of income growth in the United States has gone to the top one-tenth of 1% of earners, an exclusive group that includes only about 13,000 families Center for American Progress: " ... professional women who need hours more like a traditional full-time job of 40 hours a week often find themselves 'doing scut work at slave wages'. This systematic de-skilling of women who work part time — as one in five professional and middle-income mothers do — is a major macroeconomic cost of workforce-workplace mismatch
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