Amy Lowell (1874-1925), American poet, critic, biographer, and flamboyant promoter of the imagist movement, was important in the "poetic renaissance" of the early 20th century. Amy Lowell was born in Brookline, Mass., of the prominent and wealthy Lowell...

A descendant of a clan of cultivated New England intellectuals whose forebears, the Lowles of Somersetshire, immigrated to America in the seventeenth century, Amy Lowell took pride in her illustrious ancestry. From 1913 until her death in 1925, Lowell wa...

An oft-quoted remark attributed to poet Amy Lowell applies to both her determined personality and her sense of humor: "God made me a business woman," Lowell is reported to have quipped, "and I made myself a poet." During a career that spanned just over a...

When I set out to organize the "Darwin" exhibition, as part of the American Museum of Natural History's great scientists series-and as an early start on Darwin's birthday celebration in 2009-I began with a simple question: What exactly did Darwin see on his famous...

Patterns, video, 2002, 62 min. (3 tapes), Quality Media Resources, $1,187.50. Other material: facilitator guide, reproducible handouts, PowerPoint slides, CD with facilitation materials in PDF and Word formats. Also available on DVD. Patterns approaches the topic of sexual harassment as a behavioral issue....

Faced with pressure to reduce costs in the supply chain, pharmaceutical companies and contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs) are building production platforms in lower-cost regions outside of the United States and Western Europe. This pressure is particularly strong among major generic drug manufacturers. CMOs that provide...

For nine seasons, the hit sitcom "Seinfeld" billed itself as a show about nothing. For stock-chart readers, some base patterns are about nothing too.These price consolidations have no recognizable pattern. They are corrections without the shapes or price action common among winning stocks.True, sometimes an...