Tam Gray
Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN)
In addition to addressing coronary health, a paper entitled Sexual Functioning and Practices in a Multi-Ethnic Study of Midlife Women addresses women as they approach and begin the menopausal transition. There has been much debate on the relative impact of menopause on sexual activity. more »
Shop for Home (and tunics!): Angela Adams
The rugs are as beautiful as before (as seen in the Birds and the Bees collection) and the furniture stylish, such as the Lily dressing table, Seabird Sidecase and Pod screens. Trays, pillows, glasses, paper goods, handbags, fine art prints and yes, tunics. more »
The Hidden Art of Fore-Edge Book Painting
"By the sixteenth century, a Venetian artist, Cesare Vecellio, devised a way to enhance the beauty of a book by painting on its edges. The images, mostly portraits, were easily viewed when the covers of the book were closed. A century later in England, Samuel Mearne, a bookbinder to the royal family, developed the art of the 'disappearing painting' on the fore-edge of a book." more »
Financial Markets and Real People
"Now, part of this theme of democratization of finance is that we have to pay respect to behavioral finance. That's because people don't - especially the less educated or less capable people - don't always make optimal use of financial instruments like, for example, insurance. If people don't make use of risk management contracts, then we have a problem." more »






