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With 'Appalachian Spring' Baltimore School for the Arts breaks new ground
If there is a single work that captures the essence of America in sound and movement, it's "Appalachian Spring," the ballet with music by Aaron Copland and choreography by Martha Graham that premiered in 1944 at the Library of Congress. Although the...
Tags: Libraries, Students, Culture, Economy, Business and Finance, Concerts
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Cadaver Care: Yale Medical Students Respect the Lives of Their Anatomical Donors
One dark January night in 1824, several men crept into a West Haven cemetery. They dug up the grave of a newly buried 17-year-old farmer's daughter named Bathsheba Smith and carried her body to Yale Medical College for dissection. These students or...
Tags: Students, Quinnipiac University, West Haven, Hospitals and Clinics, Teaching and Learning
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A Celebration of the Personal Essay at New Haven Free Public Library
Anne Fadiman, Yale University's Fancis Writer-in-Residence, brings three of her students to the New Haven Free Public Library this week for the 7th Annual Celebration of the Personal Essay. The students, Alex Lew, Harrison Monsky and Mia Thompson, will...
Tags: Libraries, Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Enlist Doctors In Gun Violence Cure
The Hartford CourantWhile Connecticut continues to heal in the wake of the shooting tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, it is imperative for us to find the most effective ways to reduce deaths and injuries from gun violence. As physicians, my colleagues and...Tags: Diabetes, General Practitioners, Firearms, Health and Safety at School, Heart Attack
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Connecticut Nutritionist in a Standoff With Monster After Calling Out Energy Drinks
A multi-billion-dollar monster of a beverage company is threatening to sue a Connecticut nutritionist unless she takes back her statements that little kids shouldn't have caffeine-loaded "energy" drinks. In fact, the company's name happens to be Monster...
Tags: Food Industry, Food and Drug Administration, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Starbucks Corp., Heart Problems
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Antronette Yancey dies at 55; advocate of short bursts of exercise
For Dr. Antronette K. Yancey, a UCLA public health professor, exercise could be fun and done in short bursts in the workplace, schools and even places of worship. Her campaign to urge people to incorporate physical activity into their daily lives led to...
Tags: Health, Duke University, University of California, Los Angeles, Lung Cancer, Nutrition
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Mental Illness Fallacies Counterproductive
The Hartford CourantProponents of Connecticut establishing a law that would allow the involuntary treatment of people with mental illness in the community have recently used two misleading ideas to support their case. They acknowledge that voluntary treatment is...Tags: Diabetes, Chemical Industry, Mental Illness, Mental Health, Pharmaceuticals
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When weight is disabling
Lisa Harrison weighed 527 pounds on the day she was fired from her job at a Louisiana drug addiction treatment center. The 5-foot-2-inch Harrison, who believed her employer considered her "disabled" due to her weight, filed a discrimination charge with...
Tags: Diabetes, Employment Opportunities, Justice System, Stranger Than Fiction, American Medical Association
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Patients often biased against fat doctors, too
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People are less likely to trust and follow the advice of an overweight doctor, according to a new online survey that suggests "weight bias" may go both ways in the doctor-patient relationship. "There's lots of work which shows...Tags: Health, Medical Research, Health and Safety at School, Overweight, Weight
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Authors M-Q
Anthony Madrid Anthony Madrid lives in Chicago. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, The Iowa Review, Poetry and Web Conjunctions. His first book is “I Am Your Slave Now Do What I Say.” Rebecca Makkai Rebecca Makkai is...Tags: The Wall Street Journal, Teaching and Learning, Fiction, Organized Crime, Junot Diaz
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Santa Ana has two finalists for national museum and library medal
Santa could come early to Santa Ana’s cultural scene this year: the Institute of Museum and Library Services announced Thursday that both the Discovery Science Center and the Santa Public Library are finalists for its 2013 National Medal for...
Tags: Libraries, Culture, Children's Museum, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Walters Art Museum
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Laguna Beach dozen sign with colleges
Twelve senior athletes at Laguna Beach High signed a National Letter of Intent Wednesday to continue their academic and athletic careers. "Celebrating the success of our athletes is important and I am very proud of our students," Laguna Beach...
Tags: Harvard University, George Washington University, Sports, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Tennis
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