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An Entrepreneurial Retirement Paul Tobey
Category: Business & Finance Published: January 2015
". . . You never will regret the risks you take, only the ones you don't."
 
Can the ObamaCare Genie Be Put Back in the Bottle? Casey Mulligan
Category: Economics Published: January 2015
"If you like your weak economy, you can keep your weak economy."
 
Cyberbullying: Children as Victims and Predators Tim Woda
Category: Social Media Published: January 2015
". . . Many parents are struggling to understand what cyberbullying is and what steps they need to take to determine how to address it with their own children."
 
Dating as If It Were Driver's Ed Lisa Jander
Category: Education Published: January 2015
"Buckle up, parents. It is the law of attraction. Safe teen dating does not happen by accident."
 
Divvying Up the Spectrum Raymond L. Fischer
Category: Mass Media Published: January 2015
The Incentive Auctions will promote economic growth and improve the U.S.'s global competitiveness with increased speed, capacity, and ubiquity of mobile broadband services. They also will benefit by accelerating the smartphone- and tablet-led revolution.
 
Does Iron Man Represent the Future? Erin Barton
Category: Science & Technology Published: January 2015
"[Will] Homo sapiens . . . give rise to Robo sapiens?"
 
Finding Your Soul Susan Feinbloom
Category: Psychology Published: January 2015
"Our deepest isolation is not knowing who we are--a spirit in a body. Clairvoyance leands a depth to the session that highlight a pathway to go beyond alienation into freedom, into being yourself."
 
Get Your Teen Ready for the New SAT Pamela Donnelly
Category: Education Published: January 2015
"This test [is] touted by the College Board as more focused and practical compared to the SAT exams students have faced since 2005. . . ."
 
ISIL's Outward Expression of Internal Conflict Cathal O'Briain
Category: Worldview Published: January 2015
"The animal has awoken and only we have the power to tame it."
 
It Is Time to Impeach Obama Stephen Stone
Category: Political Landscape Published: January 2015
Prudence requires that we give the President no further opportunity to weaken or destroy the Constitution--including the prospect of imposing, with his phone and pen, a change in term limits--or otherwise unilaterally altering the rules of governance.
 
Killing Us with Kindness William Voegeli
Category: National Affairs Published: January 2015
The machinery created by the politics of kindness does not work very well--in the sense of being economical, adaptable, and effective--because the liberals who build, operate, defend, and seek to expand do not really care whether it works well…
 
Married to Nixon Diana Klebanow
Category: USA Yesterday Published: January 2015
"[The First Lady] must stay strong without ever becoming tough; must be unfailingly supportive in public and constructively critical in private; must see all to avert trouble and say nothing to get into trouble."
 
Once Upon a Lifetime Rizi Timane
Category: Mind & Body Published: January 2015
". . . For time immemorial, this is how transgender individuals existed: in the shadows, peeking out only once in a while to see who else was out there, and then, finding no one, ducking right back into hiding."
 
Power Play Philip Hamburger
Category: American Thought Published: January 2015
"Those who forget history . . . are doomed to repeat it, and this is what has happened in the U.S. with the rise of administrative law--or, more accurately, administrative power."
 
She's as Cold as Ice Judith Braffman-Miller
Category: Science & Technology Published: January 2015
"Miranda long has presented itself as one of the most haunting of myriad mysteries of the outer solar system, where some strange things happened a very long time ago."
 
The Miracle Behind "The Miracle" Wes D. Gehring
Category: Entertainment Published: January 2015
Preston Sturges always was predisposed to skewering Populist films--and there is no better example than "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek."
 
This Is No Way to Start a Vacation Linda Davies
Category: Literary Scene Published: January 2015
"Gesticulating with their Kalashnikovs, they yell at us: 'Why are you here? Who are you? What to you want?' We try to explain: 'We are tourists. We are sailing a boat. We are on holiday." It is obvious they do not believe us."
 
Thomas Hart Benton's "America Today" Mural Rediscovered
Category: Museums Today Published: January 2015
"[It] stands out . . . as a singular achievement in American art of the period, one that, among other effects, served to legitimize modern mural painting as part of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Arts Project in the 1930s."
 
Time to Hit the Panic Button John J. Berger
Category: Ecology Published: January 2015
"Time Is running out to prevent a climate catastrophe."
 
Train Wreck Ahead Patrick A. Strubbe
Category: Business & Finance Published: January 2015
Are your retirement plans about to be derailed?