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A Rustic Spirit for the Holidays
Category: Museums Today Published: November 2005
"Tasha Tudor's art . . . Has an old-fashioned charm. The scenes she paints are mostly of happy family outings, animals, sunshine, laughter, simplicity, and peace, depicting a way of life many yearn for but few achieve."
 
An Uninspired Press Translates into an Uninformed Electorate Paul Waldman
Category: Mass Media Published: November 2005
Today's "most popular news source . . . is the festering sewer of fear mongering, cheap pathos, and mindless trivia that we call local television news."
 
Dinosaurs as They've Never Been Seen
Category: Science & Technology Published: November 2005
A landmark exhibition reveals how current theories about dinosaurs have evolved over the past 20 years, as a groundbreaking walk-through diorama of a prehistoric forest brings these ancient creatures to life.
 
Election Fraud Remains Commonplace Bob Williams
Category: National Affairs Published: November 2005
"The laws that protect the integrity of our elections have been eroding for years, but it took a few whisker-thin races to bring national attention to the problem."
 
Hailing a New Era of Cooperative Conservation Mike Johanns
Category: Ecology Published: November 2005
"Government has a strong role to play, but not as a top-down regulator. It has a responsibility to be a facilitator of community-based collaborative approaches from the bottom up."
 
Is Drug Testing of Athletes Necessary? Matthew J. Mitten
Category: Athletic Arena Published: November 2005
"Rather than imposing an external drug-testing program on sports organizations, the Federal gov't should focus on preventing access to performance-enhancing drugs that pose health risks and prosecuting persons who distribute these substances illegally."
 
Photography of the Paranormal
Category: Focus on the Occult Published: November 2005
". . . From the 1860s through World War II . . . occult and paranormal phenomena were a hot topic of debate and both supporters and skeptics summoned photographs as evidence."
 
Radical Islam in America Stephen Schwartz
Category: Worldview Published: November 2005
The media, prisons, the military, and academia are four key areas where the Saudi Government and its Wahhabi ideology have gained tremendous influence in the U.S.
 
Saving Man's Best Friends Ed Boks
Category: Life in America Published: November 2005
". . . We need to ask ourselves how it is that one of the most progressive countries in the world is killing such large numbers of . . . Lost and homeless pets."
 
That Should "Cover" It Francoise Mouly
Category: Mass Media Published: November 2005
Cover art of The New Yorker entails "pictures that change the way a person sees the world, making visible concepts so fundamental that the viewer cannot remember how he or she thought before seeing them."
 
Therapy Overload on Campus Richard E. Vatz
Category: Psychology Published: November 2005
The problem w/ the ever-burgeoning number of students who rely on counseling centers is that they become dependent on the ministrations & compensations offered by liberal universities intent on helping those who merely need a...dose of self-sufficiency.
 
Why War Is So Affordable: The Military's Role in the U.S. Economy Murray Weidenbaum
Category: National Affairs Published: November 2005
"Within wide limits, the U.S. can afford to spend whatever it believes to be necessary to promote the nation's security. . . ."
 
Will Bill Clinton's Global Initiative Change the World? Jeremy Wiesen
Category: The World Today Published: November 2005
"Call it impact philanthropy, 21st century noblesse oblige, or just good, old-fashioned social activism, the spirit is there, but something vital is missing--a prioritized framework or model that works."