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Psychology |
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July 2007 |
"The ultimate frustration engendered by a mass murderer is that there are no fail-safe methods to ensure that a similar catastrophe or a worse one will not occur." |
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Profiles in History |
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July 2007 |
Having been wounded twice and fated to be an invalid for the rest of his life, he started turning his attention away from further military assignments. Poison may have stopped oozing from his leg, but his heart remained full of rancor. |
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Museums Today |
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July 2007 |
"In [Barbara Ernst] Prey's paintings, our imaginations are enticed not only by the scenes themselves, but by the exquisitely wrought details that animate the compositions." |
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National Affairs |
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July 2007 |
"[We are] witnessing a carefully planned and professional orchestrated transformation of an unprincipled left-wing politician who will let nothing, not even her deepest-held beliefs, stand in the way of becoming first woman elected president of the U.S." |
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Museums Today |
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The Muscular Dystrophy Association Art Collection provides vivid proof that the ability to create simply cannot be quelled, no matter what the physical limitations. |
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USA Yesterday |
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July 2007 |
The legendary explorer and mountain man--who could neither read nor write, yet was fluent in a number of languages--provides historians with an interesting paradox: a daring and fearless individual who was both friend and foe to Native Americans. |
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American Thought |
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". . . A hastier withdrawal and a less-than-perfect political solution than originally planned for may turn out to be the only way to extricate the nation from this quagmire [in Iraq]." |
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Profiles in History |
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July 2007 |
He put Washington in nomination to become the commander in chief of the Continental Army; chose Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence; placed John Marshall on the Supreme Court. If he had done nothing else, he would be someone we should know. |
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Profiles in History |
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During his eight years in the White House, Ronald Reagan "did not try to micromanage the decisionmaking within each of the agencies, but held his appointees accountable for the results." |
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Literary Scene |
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July 2007 |
Cable TV heavyweight Lou Dobbs lambasts big government and big business for stripping hardworking Americans of their money and dignity. |
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Museums Today |
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July 2007 |
Psychedelic art, distinguished by its use of exhuberant color, ornamental forms, and formally complex, obsessively detailed compositions, represented expanded or altered states of consciousness induced by music, light, meditation, & hallucinogenic drugs. |
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Medicine & Health |
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July 2007 |
"[The surgeon] calmly advised me to have my ovaries removed--a procedure known as a prophylactic oophorectomy. It could be done by laparoscopy. [It] usually takes about 70 minutes. . . . I started to feel numb when he spoke to me." |
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Profiles in History |
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July 2007 |
"Washington made a bet with his life that the American people could bear the burden and responsibility of living in freedom. That bet is on the table for every generation. The completion of Washington's character, then, always rests with us." |
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Profiles in History |
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He certainly was the most dashing Frenchman to have landed on America's shores. The Marquis de Lafayette was tall, handsome, noble, and rich--and wanted nothing more than to fight for the colonists' cause. |
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Museums Today |
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July 2007 |
"Not long after her death, literary and visual representations of [this French heroine] began to circulate widely and set important precedents for how she would be portrayed in the centuries to come." |
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Psychology |
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July 2007 |
"The feeling that one has no control is key to behavior that may appear unduly submissive and strangely loyal." |
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