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The World and I
World and I is an encyclopedic journal that includes world news; developments in science, the arts and philosophy; book reviews; and photo essays. Since it was founded in 1986, it is printed monthly. The journal is published by Washington Times Corp.Subjects for World and I include science; literature and literary reviews; food and cooking; art; travel and tourism; politics; philosophy; music and musical instruments; drama and theatre. The editor is Steve Osmond.
Articles from Vol. 21, No. 10, October
Amazing Amazon Animals
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Of all the hidden corners and vast stretches of land on our Earth, the most untamed, diverse, and even alien to us might be the mysterious jungle of the Amazon. Blanketed with more than six million square kilometers of thick vegetation and thousands...
A Second Death for Rothko
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On February 25, 1970, Markus Rothkowitz killed himself at age sixty-six in his studio at 157 East 69th Street by cutting himself with a razor blade and bleeding to death. When Oliver Steindecker discovered Rothko, according to Lee Seldes' The Legacy...
Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds
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Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act In 2004, the "Child Nutrition and WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) Reauthorization Act" was passed to "address the growing obesity epidemic and promote healthy eating and physical activity through changes...
Incredible Escapes
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An old English proverb reads: "Better a lucky physician than a learned one." More than a few people have said something akin to that: "I'd rather be lucky than good," after escaping unscathed what could have been their last moments of life. Chance...
Introduction
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What was it like when you were a kid? What games did you play? Did you walk or ride a bike to school? And when school broke for lunch--what did you eat? Many of us remember childhood as a time of freedom. Our activities changed with the seasons....
Return after the Storm: Argentina Recovering from Its Biggest Economic Crash
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Romina Bruno walks swiftly through a chic hotel lobby with dozens of keys dangling in her hand and the sound of muffled voices coming out of a walkie-talkie. The lean, prim and shorthaired twenty-nine-year-old Buenos Aires native may be a clear...
Ruth Faison Shaw: First Lady of Finger Painting
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Ruth Faison Shaw (1888-1969), educator, art therapist, artist, writer and lecturer, accidentally rediscovered the ancient technique of finger painting in 1926 in Rome, Italy, and integrated her technique into education and psychiatric therapy. Shaw...
Sylvia Plath: Dynamic Concepts, a Storm-Tossed Life
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Perhaps there is no poet who has created as much excitement in both literary and feminist circles as the New England writer Sylvia Plath (1933-1963). Plath reached the height of her career shortly before her death in the early 1960s, but her poems...
The Rising Epidemic of Childhood Obesity
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Childhood obesity Overweight and obesity in children are significant public health problems in the United States. The number of adolescents who are overweight has tripled since 1980 and the prevalence among younger children has more than doubled....
Tragedy, Truth, Triumph: Part II
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This is the second of a three-part series focusing on the inner struggle and triumph of one teacher's recovery from a tragic accident. Written as a journal, this true story is an excerpt from her book Tragedy, Truth, Triumph: A Woman's Personal Battle...
Ukraine between West and East: The Ethnic Problems of Post-Soviet Space
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I recently visited Ukraine, the country in which I was born but which I had not visited for more than thirty years. I saw a lot of problems in post-Soviet Ukraine; one of the most important is the ethnic/regional split. This problem has two important...
When Is a Woman Beautiful?
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When a little girl, age ten, feeling alienated from the tempestuous world spinning around me, I spent very much time alone. Occasionally I occupied myself with cutting out magazine pictures, photographs of people I found interesting. Some of these...
Why Geographical Ignorance Matters
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Geography is an important antidote to the infantile habit of thinking the world is a laboratory in which we can carry out all kinds of experiments, or a huge rubbish heap where we can get rid of all our trash. As David Landes warned in The Wealth and...
Wondrous Treasures Abound in Istanbul
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Arriving in Istanbul at twilight in winter 2005, we drove past ancient city walls topped by a confused jumble of transient modern buildings, their crumbling facades adorned with satellite dishes, the compressed layering of time and centuries as clear...
