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...shepherding the labor-reform act of 1959 through the Senate, he would brief me outside the chamber, lounging on that sore tailbone of his, making marvelously irreverent cracks about recalcitrant Senate colleagues and the pretty secretaries who walked by. During the 1960 campaign, I watched him up close: at Wisconsin factory gates at 5 a.m., in the New Hampshire snow, tramping through the hamlets of West Virginia. His days ran 20 hours. I felt more debilitated than he looked. True, J.F.K. didn't indulge in displays of physical prowess (no push-ups or arm wrestling). He just kept going...
...cans per day is the amount of diet soda you'd have to drink, says the Medi-cal College of Wisconsin, in order to consume the amount of saccharin used in a famed study that once claimed it caused cancer...
...time, conventional wisdom held that animals, human and otherwise, were essentially machines that responded to rewards and punishments. Babies clung to their mothers not for affection but because mothers provided food rewards. Using baby monkeys and artificial "mother" dolls in a series of experiments at the University of Wisconsin--Madison in the 1950s and '60s, Harlow proved the babies would cling to the dolls even when food was offered elsewhere. Love, which other psychologists had dismissed as irrelevant and scientifically meaningless, was in fact the linchpin of mental health...
...commerce king Amazon.com Shop by age, brand, category or price; check out the new GIFTSRUS.COM service or click over to IMAGINARIUM.COM for more educational items. Seen enough Playmobil people to last a lifetime? MAGICCABIN.COM goes back to basics, with lovely toys, dolls and clothes homemade by a community of Wisconsin craftswomen. ROSIEHIPPO.COM, a mom-and-pop business in Port Townsend, Wash., sells easels and other art supplies, dollhouses, puppets, even kid-size sheepskin hats (click Assorted Treasures). QUINCYSHOP.COM has a huge toys-and-games area; don't miss the Timeless section, with its sock-monkey dolls and little green plastic...
Lerner’s childhood of turmoil gave way to a life of academic achievement as a leading author and revolutionary scholar. Establishing the first degree program in women’s history in the United States, Lerner became a Professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin...