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  A Disaster Guide from TV and...

  Denis Newiak

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  Dead phones, chaos in hospitals, looming nuclear meltdowns: For years, experts all over the world have been warning of a widespread power blackout—and the devastating consequences for society as a whole. However, just as before the Covid-19 pandemic, politicians and the public are hardly aware of the far-reaching risks: A blackout would catch us almost completely unprepared.
  
  As for other (supposedly improbable) disruptive events, disaster movies and sci-fi series have long shown what would happen if modern society were to lose its lifeblood. Denis Newiak looks into those filmic fictions for answers to pressing questions:
  
  How can we prepare ourselves for the dramatic consequences of such a crisis? And can the collapse of modernity still be stopped?

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  Scalamandre - Haute Decor

  Steven Stolman

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  A formidable  textiles house and decorative tastemaker for more than 80 years in the  world of high-end interior design. Scalamandré is revered for its  comprehensive offerings of fabrics, wallcoverings and trims available  to-the-trade through design centers across the United States, Europe,  and Asia. The Scalamandré touch has also been applied to compelling  collections of china, crystal, flatware and gifts along with  ultra-luxury bedding and related decorative accessories showcased in  fine stores worldwide. 
  Scalamandré: Haute Décor celebrates the world of Scalamandré as seen  through the eyes of the international design elite while paying homage  to the people, places and events that contributed to the nearly  cinematic Scalamandré story. All those who appreciate and cultivate  beauty in their lives will enjoy this insider’s look at this interior  design treasure. 
  Steven Stolman, designer, writer and all-around style provocateur,  was born in Boston, raised in West Hartford and attended Carnegie Mellon  and Northwestern Universities before graduating from New York’s Parsons  School of Design. Known for his lighthearted use of decorative fabrics  in apparel design, he now serves as president of Scalamandré, bringing  the legendary American textiles house into its future. He divides his  time between homes in Florida, New York, and Wisconsin.

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  Lady Liberty - An Illustrated...

  Joan Marans Dims

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  Magnificent art complements an unvarnished history of the Statue of Liberty and its relationship to immigration policy in the United States. 
   
  It began in 1865 in Glatigny, France, at a dinner party hosted by esteemed university professor Édouard René de Laboulaye and attended by, among others, a promising young sculptor, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi. It was the extravagant notion of creating and giving a monumental statue to America that celebrated the young nation’s ideals. Bartholdi, and later civil engineer Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, caught the spirit of the project and thus began the epic struggle to create, build, transport, and pay for the monument. Although the Statue of Liberty was to be a gift from France, the cost of its creation was meant to be shared with America. To the Lady’s creators and supporters, America offered liberty and the right to live one’s life unencumbered—that is, without fear and with a rule of law and a government that derived its power from the consent of the people it governed. Yet, in America, fundraising for the Lady dragged. Had it not been for publisher Joseph Pulitzer’s flashy fundraising campaign in his newspaper the World, the entire project likely would have collapsed. 
   
  The tale, abundant with lively and interesting stories about the Statue of Liberty’s creators, is also told in the context of America’s immigration policies—past and present. Explored, too, is the American immigrant experience and how it viscerally connects to the Lady. Also integral to the tale is poetry—a sonnet—written by a then–largely unknown Jewish poet, Emma Lazarus, who moved a nation and gave a deeply rich and fresh meaning and purpose to the statue. 
   
  In addition to the prose, Lady Liberty includes thirty-three elegant, full-page stirring paintings by celebrated artist Antonio Masi. Lady Liberty, a smart, timely, entertaining, and nonpartisan jewel of a book, is written for every American, young and old, and those who dream of one day becoming Americans. 
   
  Praise for Lady Liberty 
   
  “A beautiful reminder of what makes us so special, blended with the history that tells us that if America loses our welcoming soul, we have lost what makes us so special.” —David Lawrence Jr., retired publisher of the Miami Herald and chair of The Children's Movement of Florida 
   
  “Now, at a time when immigration is hotly debated, Lady Liberty helps both residents of New York and enthusiastic visitors like me appreciate the history, culture and artistry behind this monument that for generations has welcomed immigrants to America.” —Richard A. Oppel Sr., editor-in-chief emeritus, Texas Monthly, and chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board, 2008-2009

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  At this college academic...

  PBS NewsHour

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  At New Jersey’s Rutgers University, a new honors program for undergraduates is redefining academic excellence. Students accepted into the highly competitive Honors Living Learning Community (HLLC) study critical social issues and prove their commitment to becoming “change-makers." While the program is small, its early outcomes have been promising. Hari Sreenivasan has the story from Newark.

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  Temples and Concepts in Ancient...

  RYAN MOORHEN

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  The earliest form of temple was a mere hut of plaited wickerwork, serving as a shrine for the symbols of the god; the altar but a mat of reeds. The earliest temples evolve from a wall built round the name-stela, which was afterward roofed in. With the advent of the New Empire the temple-building became of a much more complicated character, though the essential plan from the earliest period to the latest remained practically unchanged. The simplest form was a surrounding wall, the pylon or entrance gateway with flanking towers, before which were generally placed two colossal statues of the king and two obelisks, then the innermost sanctuary, the naos, which held the divine symbols. This was elaborated by various additions, such as three pylons, divided by three avenues of sphinxes, then columned courts, and a hypostyle or columnar hall. In this way many of the Egyptian kings enlarged the buildings of their predecessors.

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  How A Volunteer Surgical Team In...

  PBS NewsHour

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  Rheumatic heart disease develops when strep throat goes untreated. It causes an estimated 275,000 premature deaths per year, mostly youth in developing countries like Rwanda, where antibiotics are rarely available. Surgery is the only treatment option for advanced cases. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on a medical team making the wrenching decision of which young lives to save.

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