Seed Is . . .

Rhoda Penmark, the little murderess of "The Bad Seed." Maxwell Anderson's 1954 drama is remembered mainly through its 1956 film version, which differs in small but significant ways. Read More

Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small-scale workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Read More

Docent Rhoda Kubrick will present a free lecture about the many adaptations that help seeds move. Read More

But apparently, there's more to the Chia Pet than watching the clay bust of a special edition Chia Obama sprout a green fro -- people eat the seeds, and have been for thousands of years. Read More

I never used to talk much with hospital CEOs. After all, if you're running a hospital, improving the revenues of the physician practice by 6%, when the physician revenues only make up 10% of your overall revenues, doesn't really make it to the scheduling screen. Read More

Beyond the usual, the book defends a price floor for oil imports, price indexing of social security benefits, it is anti-fiscal stimulus, anti-easy money, and for health care it advocates eliminating the tax deduction, removing state-level barriers to competition, and malpractice reform. Read More