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A Declaration of Linguistic Independence Richard Lederer
Category: Words & Images Published: March 2011
Sixteen years before he became the nation's second president, John Adams proclaimed, "English is destined to be in the next and succeeding centuries more generally the language of the world than Latin was in the last or French is in the present age."
 
American Indian Art Enjoys a Revival Anthony Layng
Category: American Culture Published: March 2011
"Clearly, Indian art has been, and continues to be, influenced by ancient traditions and contemporary concerns."
 
Bewitching Moons Judith Braffman-Miller
Category: Science & Technology Published: March 2011
"More than 100 moons circle planets in our solar system. Most of them are frozen bodies, composed of ices and rocky material. Yet, a few may not be lifeless after all."
 
Canada's Economic Folly Mark Steyn
Category: Worldview Published: March 2011
"In that most basic sense, American progressives who look to Canada are wrong. Not only is Canada's path not a model for the U.S., it is not a viable model for Canada."
 
Confessions of a Cyber Junkie Kevin Roberts
Category: Psychology Published: March 2011
"I neither understood how to maintain friendships, nor did I have a clue about how to help them grow."
 
Going Dutch--17th Century Style
Category: Museums Today Published: March 2011
These Dutch and Flemish masterworks include paintings, furniture, and decorative arts exceptional for their quality, superb condition, and impeccable provenance.
 
How the Mighty Are Fallen James W. Thomson
Category: Economics Published: March 2011
". . . The depiction of the U.S.'s expected fall from grace has become 'the preferred intellectual preoccupation of the elite--left, right, and center.' "
 
It's Becoming a Bit Hot for Climatists Steve Goreham
Category: Ecology Published: March 2011
Climate Change is due to natural cycles of Earth, driven by the sun, not due to man-made greenhouse gases, and all efforts to halt global warming by draconian carbon-emission control policies are futile.
 
Let's Put the Relations in Foreign Relations Dolores T. Puterbaugh
Category: Worldview Published: March 2011
"All of this high-falutin' talk about the family of nations is silly academic claptrap unless we really see the familial in the nations: the kids, the teens, the abusive and the abused, the sociopaths and the decadent."
 
Losing the Race to Erase Racism Llewellyn D. Howell
Category: Life in America Published: March 2011
"Race is not going away, but it cannot be allowed to divide an ostensibly equal rights nation between white and black or between white and brown."
 
Mad Men of the Hardwood
Category: Athletic Arena Published: March 2011
The mayhem of March Madness figures to be a bit more intense this year with the reformatting of the NCAA Tournament to include even more teams.
 
Osteoporosis Drugs' "Broken" Promise Diana Klebanow
Category: Medicine & Health Published: March 2011
"The FDA has fulfilled its duty in its warning about a possible link between bisphosphonate drugs and atypical femur fractures."
 
The FTC and FDA Deprive Consumers of Vital Health Information Jonathan W Emord
Category: Medicine & Health Published: March 2011
"During the Obama Administration, the Federal Trade Commission, always a threat to free speech in the market, has become an even greater one, thus complementing the efforts of the Food and Drug Administration."
 
The Insanity Excuse and Retrograde Thinking Richard E. Vatz
Category: Law & Justice Published: March 2011
"There is no excuse . . . For major, sophisticated public opinion-makers simply to ignore the evidence that criminals should be held responsible for their crimes."
 
The Party's Over--Maybe for Good Gerald E. Marsh
Category: National Affairs Published: March 2011
". . . The GDP of the U.S. had, by June 2010, recovered to a few percent higher than it was in the first quarter of 2007, while employment was five percent lower than it was in the first quarter."
 
What Sticks & Stones Can't Do, Facebook Will--and More! Sarah Zay
Category: Words & Images Published: March 2011
". . . Cyber bullying . . . is faceless, impersonal, humiliating, demeaning, and potentially dangerous to a teenager's mental health."
 
Will Military Cuts Endanger the U.S.? Andrew Lubin
Category: Foreign Policy Published: March 2011
"There's nobody I knew who thinks we're going to be done with the conflicts we're in in less than five to 10 years. We may be at them in different places and at different levels, but there is nothing out there that tells us we won't be wrapped up. . . ."