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• Sexy snowboards get chilly reception from parents
A local columnist suggested spray-painting over the controversial images. From there, the controversy spread across the country. Eight ski resorts in Vermont, Colorado and California have banned their employees from using the Love and Primo lines. The ...
• Obama: Pass stimulus or recession lasts 'years'
Excerpts from his prepared text were released in advance by his transition team. "A bad situation could become dramatically worse," he added, painting a dire picture — including double-digit unemployment and $1 trillion in lost economic activity ...
• Former astronaut Alan Bean on artistic voyage
From those emotions he created his 1986 painting, "That's How It Felt to Walk on the Moon." Another painting, "The Fantasy — Conrad, Gordon, and Bean," shows all three astronauts of Apollo 12 — Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. and Richard Gordon along ...
• Lucy, Ethel, Groucho on postage stamps in ’09
Edward Hopper, a painting by the artist showing a boat sailing against the wind near Provincetown, Mass. Richard Wright, author of "Native Son," is the 25th writer commemorated in the Literary Arts series. Thanksgiving Day Parade, a four-stamp set of ...
• Let your babies grow up to be globe-trotters
In Italy, he has arranged visits to famous Renaissance museums followed by a course in watercolor painting. The globe-trotting experience Activities like these are what distinguishes a standard trip from a stellar one. They also slowly introduce ...