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A Hollow Alliance Ted Galen Carpenter
Category: Worldview Published: November 2009
NATO once was a serious and capable military association with an important purpose. That no longer is the case, and there is little prospect that the process of decay can be reversed.
 
A Revitalized FCC Is Broadband Bound Raymond L. Fischer
Category: Mass Media Published: November 2009
In the near future, broadband will be comparable to what electricity, telephones, and interstate highways were to previous generations.
 
American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell
Category: Museums Today Published: November 2009
"He loved to paint pictures that conveyed stories about people, their attitude toward each other, and his feelings about them."
 
Global Warming: A Blessing in Disguise Gerald E. Marsh
Category: National Affairs Published: November 2009
"The real tipping point for civilization is the beginning of another Ice Age--not a world a few degrees warmer."
 
Last Rites for the Dollar Are Premature Swaminathan S. Ankelsaria Aiyar
Category: Economics Published: November 2009
"If the U.S., EU, and Japan agreed to guarantee a new [International Monetary Fund] currency, it theoretically could come into existence, but there is not the slightest prospect that hard-currency countries will do so."
 
Looking In 50 Years Later
Category: Focus Published: November 2009
This Robert Frank exhibition ultimately creates a haunting picture of mid-century America, where power, vastness, and, at times, troubling emptiness mark the nation.
 
Paintings of Everyday Life Tell America's Story
Category: Museums Today Published: November 2009
This exhibition examines artists' evolving styles & standards of storytelling in relation to the themes of childhood, marriage, family, & community; the production & reinforcement of citizenship; attitudes towards race; the frontier as reality & myth. . .
 
Plodding Towards Recovery James W. Thomson
Category: Business & Finance Published: November 2009
Has public confidence in the effectiveness of free markets been lost forever and will this result in an American economy bound by the chains of government regulation?
 
Surviving the Breast Cancer Bombshell Marcia Strassman
Category: Medicine & Health Published: November 2009
"After . . . I received the official diagnosis that I was a stage IV breast cancer patient, I realized that this was not a problem I could just simply eliminate: I had to learn how to live and cope with metastatic cancer."
 
Thanksgiving & Christmas: Holiday Lineup's Unbeatable One-Two Punch James R. Lowry , Thomas A. Charles
Category: Life in America Published: November 2009
". . . Thanksgiving . . . is a special day that involves family visits and a four-day weekend for many [while] young adults regard Christmas as their most cherished holiday [with its] rich family and religious traditinos. . . ."
 
The Changing Face of Beauty Wendy Lewis
Category: Medicine & Health Published: November 2009
"Since the dawn of history, human beings have been looking for ways to slow or halt the aging process."
 
The Lurking Danger of DVT Melanie Bloom
Category: Medicine & Health Published: November 2009
"The bitter irony is that [NBC New correspondent] David [Bloom] did lose his life in the sand-blown heat of [the Iraqi] war, but the killer was neither a bullet nor a bomb. He died from complications of Deep Vein Thrombosis. . . ."
 
The Nightmare of NPH Anthony Marmarou
Category: Medicine & Health Published: November 2009
"Most [sufferers] do not even know they have it because they may have been told they have Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease . . . or even that their condition is a result of an aging brain and nothing can be done about it."