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Historian Traces Plight of the 'Radium Girls'

The federal government's recent attempts to settle claims relating to human radiation experiments during the Cold War doesn't address the problems of radium poisoning that occurred during the years before World War II. The plight of a group of women known as the "radium girls," who from 1910 to 1935 found themselves among the first victims of radium poisoning, is the subject of a new book by a Central Michigan University history professor.

Emancipating Leisure: True Leisure Is the Basis of Democracy

While a frantic pace has become an accepted way of American life,John Hemingway says it is also a threat to democracy.

Book Compares New Media with Arts of the Past

Cornell University Professor of English Timothy Murray examines the relationship between early modern works and avant-garde theater, cinema and the new electronic and digital art forms in new book

Architects recommend student housing on a "human scale"

Early in 1998 Hendrix College will break ground on six new residence houses, the first major step in implementing a campus master plan developed by the acknowledged leaders of "new urbanism," Duany Plater-Zyberk Architects and Town Planners of Miami, Fla.

Professor Turns Detective to Solve Faulkner Mysteries in Novel Fashion

With ingenuity and humor, Hendrix College English Professor Chuck Chappell has managed to blend his desire to write a novel with his ability to produce scholarly work to create a detective novel that's also a college-level text on the works of William Faulkner.

Paul Robeson Centennial Celebration Planned for February 28, 1998

The 100th anniversary of the birth of activist/singer Robeson will be celebrated at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus on February 28 with a full day of activities including an academic conference and musical entertainment. Robeson's son, Paul Robeson, Jr., will keynote.

What makes people give? Philosopher examines philanthropy

Why do we give to charity? Johns Hopkins philosopher J.B. Schneewind, an expert on moral theory and ethics, brings together colleagues to examine the question in a book he edited called "Giving."

New book views New Testament in context of culture

"The Social Sciences and New Testament Interpretation," a new book published by Hendrickson Publishers and edited by Richard Rohrbaugh, professor of religious studies at Lewis & Clark College, sheds new light on the New Testament and is the latest contribution to the anthropological study of early Christianity.