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Portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln Is Deemed a Hoax
Posted: February 11th, 2012, 3:24pm EST by By PATRICIA COHEN
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A painting in the Illinois governor’s mansion long believed to depict Mary Todd Lincoln turns out to tell a different story.
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Education Life Preview: A Sharper Mind, Middle Age and Beyond
Posted: January 19th, 2012, 10:24am EST by By PATRICIA COHEN
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How to subtract 10 years from the age of your brain? Get a college degree.
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News Analysis: Get a Midlife
Posted: January 5th, 2012, 8:25pm EST by By PATRICIA COHEN
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In areas like feeling in control of their lives, having a sense of purpose and supportive social networks, middle-aged people scored high.
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Internet Use Affects Memory, Study Finds
Posted: July 14th, 2011, 11:20pm EDT by By PATRICIA COHEN
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Subjects were more likely to remember information that they would not be able to retrieve from a computer.
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Technology Advances; Humans Supersize
Posted: April 26th, 2011, 5:50pm EDT by By PATRICIA COHEN
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A Nobel-winning economist and his colleagues track the startlingly fast changes in human height and longevity since 1700.
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Returning the Blessings of an Immortal Life
Posted: February 4th, 2011, 11:51pm EST by By PATRICIA COHEN
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Rebecca Skloot uses royalties from her best seller, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” to help the descendants of the book’s subject.
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‘Culture of Poverty’ Makes a Comeback
Posted: October 18th, 2010, 2:20am EDT by By PATRICIA COHEN
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Decades after Daniel Patrick Moynihan, scholars are conceding culture and persistent poverty are enmeshed.
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Scholars Test Web Alternative to Peer Review
Posted: August 24th, 2010, 2:10am EDT by By PATRICIA COHEN
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The Internet is calling into question one of academia’s sacred rites: the peer- reviewed journal article.
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W. S. Merwin to Be Named Poet Laureate
Posted: July 1st, 2010, 12:11am EDT by By PATRICIA COHEN
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W. S. Merwin, an undisputed master, will be named the 17th American poet laureate.
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Rise in Suicides of Middle-Aged Is Continuing
Posted: June 5th, 2010, 10:30pm EDT by By PATRICIA COHEN
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An increase that began in 2006 has not abated, according to the latest figures released by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Books | Reform: Embracing the Marketplace
Posted: December 30th, 2009, 11:49pm EST by By PATRICIA COHEN
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Two volumes on saving the American university.
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A New Force on Broadway
Posted: September 9th, 2009, 12:14am EDT by By PATRICIA COHEN
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Ushering in a new generation of Broadway power brokers, Jordan Roth, a 33-year-old producer, finalized a deal to buy a stake in and to lead Jujamcyn Theaters.
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Hot Story to Has-Been: Tracking News via Cyberspace
Posted: August 5th, 2009, 12:43pm EDT by By PATRICIA COHEN
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Media Cloud is a system that tracks hundreds of newspapers and thousands of Web sites and blogs, and archives the information in a searchable form.
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Marketing Broadway: Selling Hope for a Song
Posted: December 9th, 2008, 11:46pm EST by By PATRICIA COHEN
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Some theater veterans are hoping that as portfolios go down, the appetite for entertainment will go up.
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Tragedy Tomorrow, Economic Woes Tonight
Posted: November 19th, 2008, 12:22am EST by By PATRICIA COHEN
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Those in the industry wonder not only about empty theaters, but also about the effect on the stream of creative work.
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Theaters Monitoring Wall Street Drama
Posted: October 8th, 2008, 12:10am EDT by By PATRICIA COHEN
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For people who work in and around Broadway, as for pretty much everyone else in the country, the main stage in recent weeks has been on Wall Street.
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A Textbook Example of Ranking Artworks
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 1:24am EDT by By PATRICIA COHEN
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The economist David Galenson is convinced that the type of economic analysis that explains the $4-plus gas at the pump can also explain the greatest artists of the last 100 or so years.
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Energetic Rabbits, Melt-Proof Candies and Other Advertising Coups
Posted: July 8th, 2008, 12:53am EDT by By PATRICIA COHEN
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The new exhibition on advertising at the Science, Industry and Business Library wants to give a twist to the “Mad Men” series.
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Talking Veterans Down From Despair
Posted: April 21st, 2008, 4:17pm EDT by By PATRICIA COHEN
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A veterans’ hotline is part of a specialized effort by the Department of Veterans Affairs to reduce suicides among veterans.