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COURTLY SPLENDOR: TWELVE CENTURIES OF TREASURES FROM JAPAN, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. To celebrate the enthronement of Japan's new Emperor, Akihito, a selection of 60 objects -- among them scrolls, sculpture and a lacquered wood saddle with inlaid mother-of-pearl -- illustrating the court's role as a patron of the arts. Through...
...Linda M. Wood, the Pine Street Inn fundraising coordinator, said she is particularly appreciative of the coats from the Coop because the shelter will be able to distribute them early in the winter...
Sitting in an armchair in the green-carpeted living room of his modest wood- frame house, Ellis, 55, sees nothing unusual about the way he brought up his boys. He never urged them to become musicians, he says, but made sure they were exposed to music and got top-level training once they showed an interest. "It wasn't any messianic thing. They had lots of teachers...
Across the U.S., mental-health care has become a shambles -- fragmented and misfocused. One problem: the system is geared to episodic, not chronic, care. "We're spending about 70% of our mental-health dollars for hospital care," complains Leonard Stein, director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Mental Health Services Development Program. "What we're doing is waiting for people to have psychotic episodes and putting them in the hospital to take care of that, which we can do very well. But once the episode is over, that doesn't mean the person is cured." Patients are caught...
...high school year, he sits at home, quietly exploring the arcana of radio waves. He is a ham-radio fanatic, can take down Morse code at 13 words per minute and is aiming to get his fourth-level ham license. He has taught himself how to use a wood lathe and is rereading Mark Twain. Bo plans to go to college. He will master the artificiality of entrance exams when the time comes, he explains...