purchased by a French private collector who placed the statue in a Parisian garden, where it endured two more decades of outdoor exposure to urban pollutants and acid rain. In December 2007, the piece was shipped to Sotheby’s in New York to be sold at an auction of Greek and Roman antiquities.2 Looking beyond the superficial, curators and conservators from the Yale University Art Gallery discer...

I was born in Gorlice in southern Poland and studied medicine at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, where I obtained my MD in 1934. I started my first medical practice there while working at the nearby Bonifrater Hosptial and in 1936 married Zosia, my cousin and fellow student, who was working as a dentist. Our surgeries were side by side and shared a modest waiting room. Those were happy t...

It was the spring of 1968, I was 19 years old and a sophomore at University of Illinois in Urbana, and I very much needed a job. A chemistry classmate had mentioned that he was working some afternoons in the research lab of an organic chemist, washing glassware and preparing solutions. I went to see my friend at work and meet his boss, who told me that he didn’t have another job available but s...

Long the subject of iconographie speculation, the miniature that currently opens the luxurious late-thirteenth-century Psalter-Hours uof Yolande ofSoissons" (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 729) can now be securely identified as a depiction of the opening scene of the book of Ruth. The iden tification rests on an iconographie peculiarity shared with two roughly contemporary vernacular Bib...

Double Portraits, 1939–1956: Memoirs of Polish Jewish Women From Soviet Russia During the first months following Germany’s attack on Poland, some members community managed to sneak away eastern frontiers country which had been invaded and annexed by Red Army in second half September 1939. The tragic experiences these refugees, heretofore somehow neglected Holocaust scholars, have recently becom...

" The written text is a recent form of textile, ancillary to those primary texts 'told' or 'tooled' in cloth " (1). Thousands of years before humans could write, they could weave, turning cloth into a commodity, symbol of wealth, and decorative art. In many cultures, weaving has become a common linguistic metaphor as " weave " is used broadly to mean " create. " A weaver " not only fashions tex...

I raqi civilians were dancing and singing in the streets of Baghdad on the morning of 9 April 2003, while the American military consolidated efforts to secure the city. On that day it was obvious that Saddam Hussein had been deposed. In spite of the celebrations, however, coalition soldiers continued to meet opposition. By then the world could clearly see that at least some Iraqis were happy to...

The little girl who is the subject of this study was born in February, 1901, her mother dying at the same time in childbirth. Her father was a somewhat erratic personality, rather a genius in his own profession. The child was left in care of nurses and women relatives who spoiled the naturally masterful, egotistical girl to such an extent that living with her was almost impossible. The father r...

The current research topic inquires: “Should we treat aging as a disease?” Yet, in this inquiry, the question “Can aging be considered a disease?” is secondary, while the more primary question really must be “Is aging treatable?” Paradoxically, the answer given to the second question largely determines the answer to the first. The perceived unchangeable, and hence untreatable, nature of aging i...