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Last night's documentary interspersed historical background with testimony from locals—many of whom were in attendance last night—about 15 cent ice cream sundaes and cow heads floating in the Charles River...
...DIED. Arnold Newman, 88, who snapped 49-cent portraits in his native Philadelphia before creating photographs that graced the covers of LIFE, Look and other publications, and developing a technique that became known as "environmental portraiture"; in New York City. By exaggerating or minimizing his subjects' surroundings, he crafted impressionistic gems-most famously, a 1946 portrait of Igor Stravinsky in which a piano lid helps form the shape of a musical note, below-that suggested his sitters' personalities. In 1963 he infuriated Nazi-German industrialist and alleged Nazi collaborator Alfred Krupp with an intentionally demonic portrait. "As a Jew," Newman...
...lettuce; a whole-wheat bun costs 5 more than a white one. Like every other U.S. school district, Shawnee gets no more than $2.34 per day per child from the Federal Government to provide lunch to the poorest kids. The state of Oklahoma kicks in an additional half a cent per head. The rest of the budget must come from wealthier kids who choose to buy school lunch and snacks...
...Iron Curtain.” “Americans are not allowed to see what’s going on in the rest of the world” for fear that they would demand another system, he said. Himmelstein said that administrative costs accounted for one cent of every dollar spent on healthcare in Canada, but 15 cents for every dollar in America. “Americans are getting extraordinarily poor value for money in our healthcare system,” he said. The results are based on the Joint Canada/U.S. Survey of Health, a random phone survey conducted...
...last two years working four jobs to finance the $25,000 expedition and training for it. Osborne was climbing to raise funds for Naomi House, a children’s hospice in his native England.“Every penny I raised went to the charity. Not one single cent of the expedition came from donations,” Osborne said.The expedition was Osborne’s last chance to summit Everest this year—the climbing season closes on May 31, when monsoons begin.“The most amazing thing about Myles is that...