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    Celebrating a Duchamp Masterwork

    Sep 11, 2009 10:34 PM EST

    ... nude…especially a kind of peephole thing — I think it just touched all of these hot buttons to do with the sexual revolution,” says Michael Taylor, the Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art at the PMA, who organized the exhibit. The American painter Jasper Johns once called the ...

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    What's Happening to Manufacturers Who Don't Lower Their Prices?

    Mar 11, 2009 02:28 PM EST

    ... in ’09, 33 percent ahead of Jan-Feb 08. I have made it quite clear to all our customers that running discount sales is the start of putting yourself in a grave…and I will not be a part of that method of doing business. If you will notice a ...

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    International Court Issues Warrant for Sudan President

    Mar 04, 2009 11:40 PM EST

    JIM LEHRER: Finally tonight, the arrest warrant for Sudan's president for Darfur war crimes. We start with a report narrated by Lindsey Hilsum of Independent Television News.LINDSEY HILSUM: In Khartoum, they were ready and waiting. The government brought demonstrators out onto the streets brandishing national flags and pictures ...

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    Charities Feel the Pinch During Economic Crisis

    Dec 25, 2008 11:25 PM EST

    ... taking a toll on all forms of spending, how are charities feeling the pinch? And how do they adapt? For answers, we turn to Art Taylor, president and CEO of the Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance, which monitors charities; Stacy Palmer, editor of the newspaper Chronicle Of Philanthropy ...

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    'Black Friday' Shoppers, Retailers Cautious Amid Weak Economy

    Nov 28, 2008 08:20 PM EST

    ... seven or 10 years with big payments due at the end.Circuit City and Linens 'n Things have sought bankruptcy protection. Home Depot, Sears, Ann Taylor and Foot Locker are closing stores."Black Friday" received its name because it historically was the day when a surge of shoppers helped stores ...

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    Scientists Grow Rat Heart from Transplanted Cells

    Jan 14, 2008 03:12 PM EST

    ... to strip away all of the cells from a dead rat heart, leaving only a scaffolding of proteins."It looks like a ghost heart," said Taylor.Then, the researchers reseeded the scaffolding with heart cells from newborn rats. In just eight days, and with an electrical jump-start, the cells ...

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    Essayist Examines Addiction in Media and Everyday Life

    May 07, 2007 10:50 PM EST

    ANNE TAYLOR FLEMING, NewsHour Essayist: They are proliferating up here in the lovely and expensive hills of Malibu, residential rehab centers, I'm talking about. With names like Promises, and Passages, and Renaissance Malibu, they are protected by gates and unlisted addresses.They offer a well-heeled and often famous ...

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    Student Activism

    Apr 21, 2006 04:00 AM EST

    ANNE TAYLOR FLEMING, NewsHour Essayist: I was struck by the pictures of college kids on spring break, not the ones doing the time-honored bacchanalian thing on the beaches of Florida, but rather the kids who had forsaken that rite and gone instead to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast ...

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    Johnson-Sirleaf Describes Attempts to Come to Terms with Liberia's Violent Past

    Mar 23, 2006 05:00 AM EST

    ... on you asking for this extradition, is that right? And are you concerned that it could, if he's put on trial, provoke a pro-Taylor backlash in your country? ELLEN JOHNSON-SIRLEAF: The condition hasn't been that direct. It's been like, "We are going to support you ...

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    Death's Embrace

    Nov 17, 2005 05:00 AM EST

    ANNE TAYLOR FLEMING: In her magical new book, "The Year of Magical Thinking," Joan Didion explores the subject of grief, her own intense grief at losing her husband of 40 years the writer, John Gregory Dunne, and watching their own daughter, Quintana, struggle against illnesses that would lead to her ...