"We got involved in the lives of our subjects, sometimes spending weeks at a time with them. Julie Christie took me shopping at Biba, the hip store in Swinging London. Brigitte Bardot ignored me, wanting Douglas all to herself."

"Shakespeare revealed intense, intimate, and moving relationships through his sonnets. This collection of contemporary dances transforms his words into explosive movement and vibrant video images."

The ballroom was the perfect setting for men and women to demonstrate their dancing abilities, to show their awareness of the latest fashions, and to display their mastery of polite behavior - qualities required for acceptance in society

"I lived an important part of my life in Karinska's creations. Night after night during many seasons over the course of thirty years, I pursued my childhood dream of dancing, and I did so for the most part in her costumes."

I choose to forget anything that hinders my appreciation of life. I choose to remember all that makes being alive rich and wonderful.

The first episode takes Ms. Reichl to Blackberry Farm in Tennessee, the "cradle of American food." Making cheese, preserving jam and vegetables, spending time with the butcher and fishing for trout with Frances McDormand (the star of Fargo)are ingredients of the segment.

"He lay on a bed, with one leg gone, and the right arm soshattered that it must evidently follow: yet the little Sergeant was asmerry as if his afflictions were not worth lamenting over; and when adrop or two of salt water mingled with my suds at the sight of thisstrong young body, so marred and maimed, the boy looked up, with abrave smile the boy looked up, with a brave smile, though there was a little quiver of the lips ... "

"Grandma took her scissors out of the sewing box and clipped a one-inch square piece out of the newspaper in the 1940’s and tucked it away. I married a railroader who enjoys model train shows. If those two things hadn’t happened, and plus countless other events in-between, would I have ever held that book in my hands 65 years after things were first put into motion? I wonder if the universe has a Plan B, just in case?"

"The proportion of Americans who are currently married has been diminishing for decades and is lower than it has been in at least half a century."

Off the Page, a review from the Scout Report, Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin; Sponsored by University of Wisconsin - Madison Libraries. Listening to poets is always enjoyable, and this collection of poetry readings is quite a pip.…

"The greatest threat looms over millions of low income seniors with significant amounts of home equity. While some of these homeowners genuinely need access to their built-up equity, that need can make them especially vulnerable to bad advice from brokers and loan officers out to put the most money in their own pockets, and in the coffers of lenders and investors."

"Daybook provides information on the events happening on and off Capitol Hill. Search for events, get a daily customizable email alert on what’s happening that day, and easily add events directly to your own calendar."

Her work concerns collective decisions and voluntary cooperation. In laboratory experiments, she studies when and how human beings cooperate. As a formal theorist, she has contributed essential insights to our understanding of collective action and collective choice. She has also collaborated with and advised nonprofit organizations in many countries as they address practical issues.

The different types of women presented in this exhibition demonstrate not only a nationally evolving ideal of beauty, but also a concentrated effort on the part of publishers, advertisers, and the artists themselves to develop an easily identifiable, aesthetically pleasing product. Men were also charmed by these images.

But the remarkable thing about siblings is that no matter how tangential the relationship, there is always a core memory of shared childhood. It is indestructible. If you’re lucky, that core is made of love and respect. Ours was, even when we didn’t agree on things. And boy, did we disagree on things. There really wasn’t much chance for sibling rivalry in our household, because we were just so different from each other.

Bertha von Suttner went to work at once on a novel whose heroine suffers all the horrors of war; the wars involved were those of the author's own day on which she did careful research. The effect of Die Waffen nieder [Lay Down Your Arms], published late in 1889, was consequently so real and the implied indictment of militarism so telling that the impact made on the reading public was tremendous.

We have highlighted exceptional women whose contributions to the advancement of science deserve to transcend anonymity and occupy a place in history. We have tried to give visibility and to value the contributions of women astronomers from different epochs and countries.

Herta Müller, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed" joins the 11 women who have won the prize previously

National data reveal that foot and toe symptoms are among the top 20 reasons for physician office visits among patients ages 65-74 years

Sure, it's unsettling to find out your ex is now more wrinkled, chubby or bald — or a different sexual orientation — than you remember. But it isn't the worst thing that can happen.You could discover they hate you.

A witness to her planting method for Lilium giganteum (now called Cardiocrinum giganteum) bulbs once deemed [Gertrude] Jekyll a sorceress. On that day, having dug a sizable hole and added some leaf mold and sand, the famed gardener also tossed in a freshly killed rabbit. Then she counseled, "Now, always seat the bulbs clockwise," a task she accomplished with a firm rightward twist before filling in the hole with topsoil. Four months later, she apparently had lilies just a hare under five feet tall.

We do both enjoy travel and have taken many trips together. I prefer a fixed itinerary. Not Sally, of course. She abhors being tied to a particular schedule. And while I much prefer to fly to a destination more than a few hundred miles away, Sally would rather drive — again, the schedule phobia, and also because her car has a huge trunk which she can pack with every article of clothing she has owned since college and still have room for all the treasures she’ll buy along the way.

People 65 and older are the least likely to be infected with 2009 H1N1 flu, but, if they become infected, they are more likely than people in some other groups to develop serious complications from their illness. That is why people 65 years and older are prioritized for treatment with antiviral drugs this season if they do become sick.