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...actually live in. And the people he shows us - with their Yankee rectitude, the weathered parchment of their faces and their Nordic inwardness - seem to inhabit some prelapsarian America, the one that existed before automobiles and television. Wyeth's popularity coincided with the disappearance of an older U.S., a nation of regions, localities and rural fastnesses that was overwhelmed and homogenized after World War II by the mass market and mass media. Which is why, even at their dryest and gravest, his pictures are inevitably flush with nostalgia...
...state's environment funding - where the zoo and aquarium money comes from - will be funneled into capital projects like bridges, on the grounds that institutions like zoos can tap private funding. But at the same time, donors to the Bronx Zoo and its sister institutions across the nation are getting squeezed by the economic crisis, leaving the zoos little to fall back on. "We thought they'd use a scalpel to cut, not an ax," says John Calvelli, director of external affairs at the Bronx Zoo. "Where exactly are we supposed...
Think the Nation's Capital is no fun? Think again. Whether you're looking to mishmash with young Obama staffers or to noodle around with foreign ambassadors, there's a nightspot for every mood and every age. Eateries, bars, clubs and more are rolling out their red (and white and blue) carpets, keeping longer hours than usual (in some cases, until breakfast) and planning all sorts of special ways to toast the swearing in. TIME.com spent several nights sampling what DC is cooking up for the inaugural weekend. Here's a taste...
...tradition of a farewell address began with George Washington. His stern defense of an independent America free of foreign entanglements and deaf to the intrigues of Europe was the nation's first great speech. Citizens in villages across the country staged annual recitations for decades after Washington's death. Dwight Eisenhower used his valedictory to issue a memorable warning against a permanent "military-industrial complex" - an alert more quoted than heeded. (See pictures of President Bush's summer trip to Europe...
...office," Mistral says. "No U.S. sector benefits from this, and there's no way the E.U. will reverse its ban on hormone-raised beef that consumers here don't want. I suspect we'll see this move reversed by the new administration as both obnoxious and futile." For a nation derided by France-bashers as "cheese-eating surrender monkeys", them's fighting words...