If you fly a lot, it's probably just a matter of time before an airline manages to lose your luggage. The Consumerist explains what you should do in the event your bag goes hopelessly AWOL. Here's an excerpt: Make an itemized list of all your lost stuff. The airline is going...
The Consumerist suggests six ways to get out of your current cell-phone contract so you can buy an iPhone. Five of them are pretty ludicrous (e.g., "die" and "join the armed forces"), but there's one that makes sense: Sell the contract. Normally, breaking a contract early results in a hefty...
Political change in China; comparisons with Taiwan. Ed. by Bruce Gilley and Larry Diamond. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. 2008 309 pages $65.00 Hardcover JQ1510 With its rapidly growing economy, rising middle class, and trajectory...
Billboards across Moscow advertising a women's magazine are raising female consciousness by asking Russia's fairer sex: "Are you ready to pay half to be independent?" It's a question with increasing relevance because growing numbers of young Russian women are moving into management positions,...
Visual arts RICHARD PRINCE: CONTINUATION Serpentine Gallery LONDON *** When Richard Prince was growing up on the outskirts of Boston, the posters on his bedroom wall were not of The Beach Boys or his local baseball heroes but of...
WASHINGTON AFP — As Americans struggle with soaring fuel and food prices, it must come as a relief that the cost of some items in their shopping baskets are staying the same. Or are they? While the price of some processed food may be staying put,...
Brides, Inc.: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition. By Vicki Howard (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 306 pp. $34.95). Tradition is a powerful idea, particularly when it comes to weddings in America. Many brides are enticed by the notion that they are following...
In late May, New York magazine noted a highly unusual advertisement that appeared on Craigslist. A young Brooklyn couple had decided to sell virtually everything they owned, from electronics to furniture to designer shoes, for $8,500. As it turns out, the couple was planning on taking their two...
For nearly a decade now, I've been writing about controversies regarding the relationship between weight and health. In the course of studying the matter, I've concluded that much of the conventional wisdom about the subject is simply wrong. During the last couple of...
Who will lead Southern Baptists and just how many members are there in what has long been counted as the USA's largest Protestant denomination? The annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, which will bring 9,500 members to Indianapolis next week, promises a contentious election for...
An elaborate installation of towers of highly polished metal food vessels stacked on a long moving platform stood at the entrance to Subodh Gupta's second exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery. At once coolly mechanical and seductive, this gleaming array of steel, aluminum, copper and brass containers suggested...
Caring for them from birth to death; the practice of community-based Cuban medicine. Perez, Christina. Lexington Books 2008 315 pages $70.00 Hardcover RA456 In the US, inequities in health care delivery...
CHICAGO AFP — With just hours to go before the opening of his first major retrospective, Jeff Koons is pacing purposefully through the main gallery of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. White gloves in hand, he pushes and pulls at the pedestal that will hold his...
Byline: Paul Gillin More than 800 e-mails about all kinds of consumer horror stories pour into the editor's inbox at RipoffReport.com every day. A staff of freelance editors briefly reviews every one and adds most to the public database of...
French war brides in America; an oral history. Kaiser, Hilary. Praeger 2008 177 pages $44.95 Hardcover D810 Kaiser (U. of Paris-Sud) provides fascinating narratives by war brides from World War I and II, describing...
Poverty and Progress in the U.S. South Since 1920. Edited by Suzanne W. Jones and Mark Newman. European Contributions to American Studies. (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2006. Pp. 207. 35.95 [euro], ISBN 90-8659-048-9.) The contributors to this collection interpret poverty...
The White Tiger By Aravind Adiga ATLANTIC Pounds 12.99 (321pp) Pounds 11.69 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897 Over the past couple of years, an extraordinary thing has happened in India. Driven by vertiginous economic growth, the burgeoning of an aggressively consumerist, astonishingly wealthy urban elite and...
Boris Lurie, 83, Russian-born artist who made his career in New York, died Jan. 7 in Manhattan. In 1960, he co-founded, with Sam Goodman and Stanley Fisher, the politically engaged NO!art group, which used an irreverent avant-garde vocabulary and sought social change through art. The name No!art expressed the group's...
Art critic and dealer Ivan Karp remembers Andy Warhol. Take his recollections, for instance, of the four-story townhouse on Lexington and 87th, which the young artist shared with his mother: It was very dark; the whole house was dark. But . . . furnished with great taste-all kinds...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Since attending Goldsmiths College in the mid-90s, London-based Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard have collaborated on projects related to rock music. From re-enacting concerts, to producing self-portraits of themselves as pop stars, to using compilation tapes as a...
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