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...London is downright modest. George Washington inhabited a grand estate at Mount Vernon, Virginia, and Thomas Jefferson built Monticello, an elegant mansion, in the same state. But for 15 years, Franklin was a tenant in a simple four-story Georgian brick row house on a street off the Strand near Trafalgar Square. The house's interior is handsome but spare, reflecting the thrifty nature of the man who popularized the proverb, "A penny saved is a penny earned." On Jan. 17, the 300th anniversary of Franklin's birth, the famed inventor-diplomat's sole surviving home will open...
...take pictures, and the immigrants will keep coming to look for jobs. What happens between them will continue to make witnesses queasy, not just because of the looming risk of violence but also because of a sense that the system is badly broken. "This is America," says Keenan Strand, owner of the McDonald's restaurant across the street from the Macehualli center. "You can't just walk up to someone with brown skin, photograph them and demand their papers." For now, it appears...
...chest hair to face the horrors in store for Harry. I?m getting quite fond of Emma Watson as Harry?s pal Hermione. Only Rupert Grint?s Ron Weasley, the whiny ginger kid who represents the working class at Hogwarts, tries my patience. The film?s one unneeded plot strand concerns an estrangement between Ron and Harry. Why bother sundering them when we know they?ll get back together...
...says Rebecca Senf, one of the exhibit’s curators.The rest of the 180 or so photographs in the exhibit trace Adams’ mastery of straight photography—a style emphasizing sharp detail and tonal range over fuzzy abstraction that Adams gleaned from contemporaries like Paul Strand and Edward Weston. But while the latter two used the technique to capture the intricacies of daily life with pictures of people, bicycles and bell peppers, Adams took the requisite large-format view camera (he shot each frame on huge, eight-by-ten-inch sheets of film) into the wilderness.The...
...prescription of antibiotics. This year, she said, UHS will begin measuring the rate at which it prescribes antibiotics. The study published yesterday states that physicians prescribed antibiotics in 53 percent of annual visits for sore throat. This exceeds the expected 15 to 36 percent prevalence of the only common strand of strep throat treatable with antibiotics. The study’s other major conclusion concerns the frequency in which strep throat tests are administered. “Only about half of those who get treated with antibiotics get tested...to confirm the diagnosis,” said Finkelstein. Lee said...