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BusinessWeek
January 21, 2010
Burt Helm |
Obama Still Moves the Merch His approval rating is down, but tourists -- and critics -- are keeping his memorabilia market hot   |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2010
Mark Anderson |
Genome as Commodity In a few years, millions will have purchased their own genome. The cultural ramifications of a $100 genome are as wide and deep as those of any other recent innovation, including search engines and cellphones. |
Humanities
Jan/Feb 2010
Jim Schlosser |
North Carolina's Shelley Crisp Crisp tends to see the humanities in the stories of the many peoples who make up the quickly changing and fast-growing state. |
National Defense
February 2010
Grace V. Jean |
'Culture Maps' Becoming Essential Tools of War The U.S. military has access to the world's best topographic maps. It is now trying to build "culture maps" that include details such as a region's tribal affiliations, ethnicity, religion and language. |
National Defense
February 2010
Grace V. Jean |
Army's Anthropology Teams Under Fire, But in Demand The military's lack of knowledge of the Iraqi population and its socio-cultural dynamics was one of the key failings of U.S. policy that led to the rise of insurgency there. |
Humanities
Jan/Feb 2010 |
Curio A collection of letters on life in the Ozarks during the Civil War, a new book on Language Anxiety: Conflict and Change in the History of English, and the francophone towns on the St. John River are explored. |
Humanities
Jan/Feb 2010
Lifson & Scanlan |
Statements Vignettes about artist Esphyr Slobodkina's work, Mexican muralists, and Jewish pioneers in the old west. |
Humanities
Nov/Dec 2009
John Matteson |
Little Woman The devilish, dutiful daughter, Louisa May Alcott is depicted in the NEH-funded documentary Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women, to be aired December 28 on PBS |
Humanities
Nov/Dec 2009
David Geffner |
Soul of a Writer Legendary crime writer Jim Thompson's work was formed in the trenches of New Deal populism as the director of the Oklahoma Federal Writers' Project in the late 1930s. Many movie adaptations have been made of his work. |
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