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...clearly wanted to write about him. Ceccaldi's book does not focus exclusively on Houellebecq, but her assessment of his personal and artistic flaws are the meat of a work apparently conceived and executed as an act of revenge. In one section, for example, Ceccaldi caps off a point by urging her son to go have something extremely intimate done to himself that no mother should ever order her child...
Here's an unorthodox candidate for the title of America's greenest President: Richard Milhous Nixon. It was the arch-Republican Nixon, after all, who created the Environmental Protection Agency and the Council on Environmental Quality, who signed the landmark Clean Air Act into law. Nixon isn't the only Republican President who can claim a green legacy. Environmentalism as a political force effectively began with President Theodore Roosevelt, a lifelong conservationist and outdoorsman who made Yosemite a national park and created 42 million acres of national forests. And even George H.W. Bush, whose promise to be the "environmental President...
...combined efforts of scientists and evangelicals to raise awareness of environmental issues—what Cizik terms “creation care,” a reference to the Bible—included the release of a report urging the federal government to act on climate change...
...compelling case that financial infidelity--lying to your partner about how much you spend, secretly playing the stock market or piling up debts--can be just as damaging to a relationship as adultery. "The dangerous thing about financial infidelity," writes Weil, "is not the secret itself, but the act of conscious deception in a relationship." Weil, a psychologist in New York City with 30 years of experience counseling troubled couples, takes an uncompromising position: "There's no such thing as an innocent financial fib." Even if you don't accept her zero-tolerance approach--Weil frowns on even the surreptitious...
...benefits program that help lower costs for veterans receiving medical care. The state healthcare reform requires hospitals to provide free care to patients without insurance while simultaneously decreasing the amount that the state will reimburse hospitals for such services. In response to the financial losses due to the act, the Cambridge Health Alliance—a network that provides medical services for residents of Cambridge, Somerville, and parts of Boston—announced in March that it would slash 300 jobs. DVS Director Robert Stevens met yesterday with representatives of CHA and the City Council Veterans Committee to discuss coordinating...