Thanks to our incredibly large refrigerators, Americans have ample space to display even the biggest collections. Art museums drove me into the ranks of refrigerator magnet hoarders.

My thanks to Melissa Bailey, Allan Appel and Thomas MacMillan for their encouragement along the way, to all those who have found the series worth reading, and most especially to Paul Bass, not only ...

An object lesson is a staged experience to show a young person what it’s like to be on the receiving end of some misbehavior or mistreatment in hopes of discouraging the young person from doing ...

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DESIGN Object Lesson in Beauty When future archaeologists excavate the ruins of Los Angeles and New York, they are more likely to judge the 20th century's standards of beauty by shards of Corning ...