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"Let Them Eat Cake!"
Category: Mass Media Published: September 2006
A new PBS documentary examines the many myths surrounding Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France, who met her end on the blade of the guillotine.
 
A System in Crisis Steve Riczo
Category: Health Care Published: September 2006
"Health care reform should be elevated to the same level as our other most pressing issues, such as the revamping of Social Security, energy conservation and development, and terrorism prevention."
 
Blessed Are Those Who Mourn--and Those Who Comfort Them Dolores Puterbaugh
Category: Psychology Published: September 2006
In our death-denying society, all too often the message is: Get over it and get back to normal. The fact is, the bereaved's "normal" never will be the same.
 
Dreaming in Black & White
Category: Focus on Photography Published: September 2006
"A list of artists to whom [Julien] Levy gave their first . . . Exhibitions illustrates what a remarkable eye and mind he had, and this exhibition is a tribute to his legacy."
 
Fending Off Bereavement Bullies Carol Shapiro
Category: Psychology Published: September 2006
Beware the all-knowing rules maker who, in pat cliches, tells us how we should act and feel, and how long our grief should last and what form it should take.
 
Girodet: France's Romantic Rebel
Category: Museums Today Published: September 2006
"As he veered away from orthodox classicism, [the artist] made his subjects increasingly evocative and dreamlike, sometimes adding a strange, erotic charge."
 
How Immigration Reform Could Help Alleviate Teacher Shortages Kirk A. Johnson
Category: Education Published: September 2006
". . . Math and science instructors should have backgrounds and degress in these subjects. Recruiting quality, English speaking teachers from abroad is one way to achieve this goal."
 
Is It Up to the U.S. to Fix the Middle East? Chuck Hagel
Category: National Affairs Published: September 2006
"Military action alone will not destroy Hezbollah or Hamas. . . . The pursuit of tactical military triumphs at the expense of the core strategic objective of Arab-Israeli peace is a hollow victory."
 
Lizards and Snakes . . . Oh, My!
Category: Ecology Published: September 2006
The American Museum of Natural History is the ideal showcase for live squamates and their remarkable adaptations for survival, including projectile tongues, deadly venom, amazing camouflage, and sometimes surprising modes of locomotion.
 
Napoleon on the Nile
Category: The World Yesterday Published: September 2006
"If the Egyptian campaign ended as a military failure for France, it proved beyond doubt to be a cultural triumph for the world."
 
Projects That Work Andrew Graham , Andrew Longman
Category: Business & Finance Published: September 2006
Being on time, within budget, and to specification can be difficult. As one project manager explained, "You can have it fast, cheap, or good. Pick two."
 
Rembrandt at 400: Better than Ever
Category: The World of Art Published: September 2006
The great Dutch master excelled in a number of mediums, as his drawings reveal the artist's keen powers of observation while his printmaking proved to be uniquely bold and innovative.
 
The Gift of Being There for a Seriously Ill Loved One Susan Apollon
Category: Medicine & Health Published: September 2006
"Finding out a friend or family member has a life-threatening illness can knock you off your foundations. . . . Many people have no idea what to do with the powerful emotions that well up."
 
The Silent Sorrow Perry-Lynn Moffitt
Category: Life in America Published: September 2006
"American society does not deal will with death in general and with pregnancy loss in particular."
 
Three Days in North Korea James A. Nathan , Thomas De Luca
Category: Worldview Published: September 2006
Change can--and must--come to this rogue nation, but it will not be easy, as a trip to this bastion of Communist control proved.
 
When Tears Are Not Enough J. Shep Jeffreys
Category: Medicine & Health Published: September 2006
If called upon to help those walking the anguished path of grief, will we know what to do to help ease their pain and alienation?