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...really American thing in my painting is movement," says Wyeth. He was most excited by the technical challenge of depicting the flying spokes of the wheels. But there was the restless, lonely conquering of space, which Americans have had as a challenge since they first set foot in the broad New World. "I was struck by the distances in this country," said Wyeth, "which are more imagined than suggested in the picture -by the plains of the Little Big Horn and Custer and Daniel Boone and a lot of other things in our history...
...mail, Mottron wrote, "Baron-Cohen used a questionnaire which scores high in autistics. This questionnaire also scores higher in [nonautistic] men than in women. This only demonstrates that the autism questionnaire is a very weak and broad instrument, which is unable to differentiate autism and male characteristics. It does not demonstrate that autism is linked to testosterone...
...projects like high-speed rail lines and subway stations tend to take more time to build than roads or repairs. And while a recent study calculated that the average dollar spent on infrastructure ricochets into $1.59 worth of short-term growth - a bit better than aid to states or broad-based tax cuts and a lot better than tax cuts for businesses or investors - increasing food-stamp or unemployment benefits packs even more bang for the buck...
...people who can't afford to save it. That's why food stamps work so well as a stimulus. And that's why Obama is pushing a permanent $500-per-person credit on payroll taxes for every worker making less than $200,000 a year. But his rationale for broad-based relief goes beyond stimulus: he has repeatedly promised a fairer tax code that would make work pay for everyone, and this might be his last chance to play with an extra $1 trillion...
...Israeli government's media operations are the most sophisticated in the region, and its extensively planned hasbara campaign of public advocacy swung into high gear almost as soon as the current offensive began. Israel and its advocates are stressing a broad theme to frame the conflict - rocket fire from Gaza is an existential threat from which Israel has a right to defend itself, they argue - and they are seeking to limit reporting on civilian suffering in Gaza by challenging how much time or space media outlets devote to such images and by emphasizing the great care being taken by Israeli...