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Newsweek’s Baghdad correspondent reveals how covering the war has taken a tragic toll on his personal life. Also: West Berliners’ attitudes towards democracy after World War II. A look at the unusual Jasper Johns exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Plus, Please Explain is all about DNA!
Love and Loss in Baghdad
Michael Hastings, Newsweek’s Baghdad correspondent, explains how covering the war in Iraq came at a huge personal cost. He writes about love and loss in wartime in his new memoir, I Lost My Love in Baghdad.
The American Candy Bombers
In 1948, people in West Berlin were suffering and hungry when American and British pilots airlifted in billions of pounds of food and supplies. Find out how that affected West Berliners’ attitudes about democracy in the years immediately following World War II. Andrei Cherny’s new book is The Candy ...
Jasper Johns: Gray
The color gray has been an important theme in Jasper Johns’s work throughout his career, from the mid-1950s to the present. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting an exhibit, "Jasper Johns: Gray," through May 4. Ian Alteveer is exhibitions assistant.
Please Explain: DNA
DNA testing has been in the news lately, thanks to the raid on the FLDS compound in Eldorado, Texas where authorities don’t know which children belong to which parents. We find out what DNA is, how it defines us, and how DNA testing works. Dr. Timothy Bestor is Professor of ...
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