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America in the 1960s
Category: Focus Published: May 2008
"This exhibition exemplifies [photojournalist Larry] Schiller's reputation for being 'at the right place at the right time' whenever headline-making news events occurred."
 
Debt & Deficit John L. Scherer
Category: National Affairs Published: May 2008
"Americans must decide, by reasoning from evidence and studying history, what is affordable and attainable rather than what appears most desirable--and make their wishes clear at the voting booth."
 
Gustave Courbet: France's Fearless Provocateur
Category: Museums Today Published: May 2008
The radical and rebellious 19th-century painter "rejected artistic convention, challenged academic norms, and created artworks that scandalized the public."
 
I Do Not Think My Feelings Will Change . . . But at Least I Hope They Will Dolores T. Puterbaugh
Category: Psychology Published: May 2008
"In an environment where intellectuals assert that nothing is definite or sure . . . Emotions were handed the higher ground as pure, honest expressions of the true self rather than impositions from a cold, rational, profit-driven society."
 
Learning the Right Lessons from Iraq Benjamin H. Friedman , Harvey M. Sapolsky , Christopher Preble
Category: Worldview Published: May 2008
"The best way to promote American security is restraint--a wise and masterly inactivity in the face of most foreign disorder. The U.S. should resurrect the notion that the best way to spread democracy is to model it."
 
MDA Is Ready to Turn the Corner Gerald C. Weinberg
Category: Life in America Published: May 2008
"Science, with [the Muscular Dystrophy Association's] years of backing, is making dramatic headway against the genetic defects that lie behind so many muscle-wasting diseases."
 
Putting The Greatest Show On Eart "Over the Top" Nicole Feld
Category: Entertainment Published: May 2008
"At Ringling Bros., you expect to see incredible artists, magnificent animals, and high-quality entertainment, but we strive to deliver on the expectation of the 'unexpected' and to surprise even the most precocious pre-teen."
 
Stop the Panic on Climate Change Indur M. Goklany
Category: Science & Technology Published: May 2008
The concern for future generations is misplaced, as they "not only will be better off, they will have at their disposal better and more effective technologies to address not just climate change, but any other sources of adversity."
 
The Candidates Go to War Llewellyn D. Howell
Category: Political Landscape Published: May 2008
The three main players in the race for president--especially Republican hopeful John McCain--really do not seem to understand the intricacies of the war in Iraq.
 
The Gandhi Connection K.G. Subramanyan
Category: The World Yesterday Published: May 2008
The Mahatma secured India's independence some 60 years ago with the assistance of Nandalal Bose and Rabindranath Tagore.
 
The Great Debate Steve Forbes
Category: Economics Published: May 2008
Democratic capitalism still has not vanquished the idea of collectivism. As proof, merely look at how our government embraces the concepts of socialism at the expense of free trade and other economic truths.
 
The Obama vs. Clinton Sincerity Sweepstakes Richard E. Vatz , Lee S. Weinberg
Category: Political Landscape Published: May 2008
" 'You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood and place it in the navel of a flea, and still have room left for three caraway seeds and an agent's heart.' It is much the same in American politics."
 
The Powerful Hand of George Bellows
Category: USA Yesterday Published: May 2008
These "images--ranging from intimate studies of the artist's friends and family to public sporting events and social gatherings--have not been seen together since the 1950s."
 
The Tremendous Burden of Psoriasis Alan Menter
Category: Medicine & Health Published: May 2008
"Subtle sideways glances, frank stares, bold questions, the refusal to take an offered hand, dropped eye contact, and turned heads--the slights an hurts accumulate quickly."