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• New Series: Under the Influences. Painting One - Andy Warhol (Gold Marilyn).

  About a year ago I turned 50. I started thinking about how I got where I am. How does a kid from the southeast side of Chicago end up with paintings on five continents, teaching art in Turkey? My teachers. Not the people who stood in front of classrooms or in studios - from them  …

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• Yes, America, We Have Executed an Innocent Man--Again

  Source: The Atlantic — News and analysis on politics, business, culture, technology, national, international, and food – TheAtlantic.com

  Even for Justice Antonin Scalia, the crassest of the current United States Supreme Court justices, it was a particularly callous piece of writing. In 2006, in a case styled Kansas v. Marsh, the Court's five conservatives had just upheld a portion of Kansas' capital punishm …

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• Why So Many Ph.D.s Are On Food Stamps

  Source: NPR

  With the economic troubles of the past few years, it's no surprise that the number of people using food stamps is soaring. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that an average of 44 million people were on food assistance last year; that's up from 17 million in 2000. What …

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• Mario Batali a hungry chef on food stamp challenge

  To much of the world, it was Monday. To Mario Batali, it was Day Four.

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• Paul campaign ignored inquiries over reservist

  Source: Army Times

  Ron Paul's presidential campaign did not return repeated Army inquiries seeking information about the political activities of a reservist who endorsed Paul in uniform at an Iowa rally, according to Army documents released Tuesday. Records released to The Associated Press under …

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