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"The Greek" Invades Italy and Spain
Category: Museums Today Published: November 2003
The artist Domenikos Theotokopoulos--El Greco--intorduced "such as extravagant style that to this day nothing has been seen to equal it," noted 17th-century writer Jose Martinez. "Attempting to discuss it would confuse the soundest minds."
 
Building a DVD Library--The Paramount Way Robert S. Rothenberg
Category: Entertainment Published: November 2003
Almost two dozen Academy Award winners, literary adaptations, comedies, crime films, sports movies, and musicals can provide hours of entertainment during the coming winter months.
 
Can the U.S. Continue to Flex Its Economic Muscle? Murray Weidenbaum
Category: National Affairs Published: November 2003
Are burgeoning budget deficits, national security overruns, burdensome government regulations, Medicare funding woes, and stiff global competition endangering America's powerhouse status?
 
Challenging the Prison Industrial Complex Rachel Herzing , Melissa Burch
Category: Law & Justice Published: November 2003
"As states fail to fund health care, welfare, education, and transportation . . . The continued growth in corrections spending is extraordinarily stark."
 
Deflating the World's Bubble Economy Lester R. Brown
Category: Economics Published: November 2003
"Unless the damaging trends that have been set in motion are reversed quickly, we could see vast numbers of environmental refugees abandoning areas scarred by depleted aquifers and exhausted soils. . . ."
 
Funding School Choice Programs David F. Salisbury
Category: Education Published: November 2003
". . . Vouchers or tax credits . . . Not only will give children access to better education, [they] will unleash the power of constructive competition that will lead to dramatically improved outcomes in the future."
 
Is There Sex After Cancer? Leslie R. Schover
Category: Medicine & Health Published: November 2003
Patients must focus on the power of love and understanding, rather than the actual mechanics of lovemaking, to enjoy a life of intimacy once again.
 
It All "Ads" Up: TV Commercials of the Future Raymond L. Fischer
Category: Mass Media Published: November 2003
"With pressure from [digital video recorders], advertisers and ad agencies searching for something to replace the 30-second commercial are utilizing placement with a vengeance, especially in game, reality, and lifestyle programs."
 
Making Mothers Count: The Fiscal Value of Nurturing Kristin Maschka
Category: American Thought Published: November 2003
"Mothers will achieve social and economic equality when productive 'work' is redefined to include unpaid domestic labor, public policies and workplaces are reorganized to reflect that, and cultural attitudes about the value of caregiving work change."
 
Philip Guston: Abstract Expressionism's Provocative Pioneer and Ultimate Critic
Category: Museums Today Published: November 2003
"Significant artists are often those figures who make bold and difficult transitions, whose works reflect not only the aspirations and anxieties of their own generation, but of those that came before and after."
 
The Fall of Napoleon and the Rise of Romanticism
Category: Museums Today Published: November 2003
"Following the end of the [French emperor's] regime, a new array of attitudes and aesthetic sensibilities celebrated extremes of emotion, the irrational, and the power of nature to awe and inspire."
 
When the Punishment Doesn't Fit the Crime Erik Luna
Category: Law & Justice Published: November 2003
"Federal penitentiaries are filled with minor offenders [who] sit in prison, not because their punishment is morally deserved or achieves some social goal like crime deterrence, but because the Guidelines have shifted punishment authority to prosecutors."
 
Winged Messengers: Does Habitat Loss Signal Biodiversity's Death Knell? Howard Youth
Category: Ecology Published: November 2003
Destruction of ecological living spaces is the greatest threat to the survival and preservation of the globe's wide array of animal and plant species.
 
Women in the Workplace--The Unfinished Revolution Myra H. Strober
Category: American Thought Published: November 2003
"Society has not focused on the need to provide alternative types of care, particularly for children and the elderly, during the time that caregivers are employed."