Articles 2026
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The Iconographer
In Julius Shulman's photographs, modern architecture became seductive, comfortable, and immortal
The Atlantic, November 2006
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The surgery was simple; the process is another story
USA Today, October 23, 2006
Most people think of "organ donors" as dead people. Public campaigns encourage this idea, urging Americans to sign donor cards and let their families know they want their organs to go to others when they die. In Dallas, there's a Texas Organ Donor Memorial Walkway, with bricks inscribed with donors' names. -
Superhero Worship
Once the province of Garbo and Astaire, movie glamour now comes from Superman, Spider-Man, and Storm.
The Atlantic, October 2006
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Big Bucks and Blacktops
Parking lots are not a very sexy business--especially when they're of the ugly, downtown variety. Despite what downtown boosters and local media say, proposed regulations to "beautify" those lots won't help--as long as landowners think they're going to hi
D Magazine, October 2006
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The American Standard of Whining
Forbes, September 03, 2006
Adam Smith was a remarkably insightful guy. He not only figured out how expanding trade allows the division of labor, thereby creating wealth and raising living standards, he also realized how hard it is to get people to believe they're better off than their ancestors. He discovered declinism way back in 1776.
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Signs of Our Times
In under a century, neon signs--part sculpture, part lighting, part billboard--have gone from marketing tool to tacky trash to folk art.
The Atlantic, September 2006
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The Next Starbucks?
How massage went from the strip club to the strip mall
The Atlantic, July/August 2006
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Need transplant donors? Pay them
Los Angeles Times, June 09, 2006
When Kaiser Permanente forced kidney patients to transfer from the UC Davis and UC San Francisco transplant centers to its own fledgling program, it shortened their lives -- and created a scandal. -
"Unfair" Kidney Donations
Forbes, June 03, 2006
We don't expect a respected hospital to refuse a patient legal, nonexperimental, life-saving surgery for ideological reasons. But that's what Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, affiliated with Harvard Medical School, did to Lisa Cunningham. It's what New York University Hospital did to Herbert Greenfield.
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Here's Looking at You, Kidney
How and why I became an organ donor -- and how I kept people from talking me out of it.
Texas Monthly, June 2006