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Technology

GoFugYourself.com: Bad Fashion on the Web

Alex Chadwick talks with Jessica Morgan, co-creator of GoFugYourself.com -- a humorous Web site which has just won an award for best writing in a blog. The site features less-than-flattering pictures of celebrities, along with some very funny captions.

GoFugYourself.com: Bad Fashion on the Web

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Culture

Questions Hang Over Administration Getty Trust

The Getty Trust, one of the largest foundations in the United States, has been under investigation for how it spends money as a non-profit organization. In the midst of the investigation, President and CEO Barry Munitz resigned. But some say that doesn't settle the matter.

Questions Hang Over Administration Getty Trust

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Friday

Science

Exhibits Promote Human Remains as... Art

Exhibitions of dissected human cadavers continue to draw crowds and controversy. The chief medical adviser for "Bodies: the Exhibition," a show currently running in New York City, talks about the tension between art and anatomy.

Exhibits Promote Human Remains as... Art

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Thursday

David Seymour's 'Reflections From The Heart'

David Seymour chronicled wars and the lives they shattered from the 1930s to 1950s. He took pictures from his heart. And the photog who went by the nickname Chim somehow found a way to get close enough to capture the spirit of his subjects.

David Seymour's 'Reflections From The Heart'

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Thursday

Photo Op: An Occasional Series

Unflattering Photo Prompts 'NYT' Correction

The New York Times magazine ran a correction about their photo of former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner. The correction acknowledged the film used for the shot distorted the colors of Warner's outfit. Political observers say the unflattering picture could hurt Warner's presidential ambitions.

Unflattering Photo Prompts 'NYT' Correction

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Wednesday

Opinion

Review: 'Black.White.' Furthers Cliches of Black America

Commentator John McWhorter is the author of Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America. He thinks the new FX TV show "Black/White" is full of stereotypes and cliches about what life is like for black America.

Review: 'Black.White.' Furthers Cliches of Black America

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Sunday

National

Patterns of Life: Margi Scharff's 'Road Collages'

When Margi Scharff felt stomach pain in India, she assumed it was "Delhi Belly," an ailment often afflicting visitors. The 51-year-old artist, based in Los Angeles, was instead told she has advanced ovarian cancer.

Patterns of Life: Margi Scharff's 'Road Collages'

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Saturday

Two Artists, a River and a Debate over Public Space

Artists Jeanne-Claude and Christo, who last winter exhibited The Gates of Central Park, are now focused on their next installation, Over the River. In development off and on since 1992, the project will festoon the Arkansas River with swaths of fabric, a rural and much larger version of last year's New York feat.

Two Artists, a River and a Debate over Public Space

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Opinion

Whistler's Mother Gives Way to Younger Woman

The somber portrait known to most of us as "Whistler's Mother" is out of the latest edition of Janson's History of Art. A more colorful painting by James McNeill Whistler -- of a younger subject -- has been substituted.

Whistler's Mother Gives Way to Younger Woman

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Wednesday

Obituaries

Tribute to Photographer, Filmmaker Gordon Parks

Ed Gordon remembers Gordon Parks, who died on Tuesday. Parks captured black America as a photographer for Life magazine and became Hollywood's first major black director with the "blacksploitation" hit Shaft. Parks was 93 years old.

Tribute to Photographer, Filmmaker Gordon Parks

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Obituaries

Multitalented Artist Gordon Parks Dies at 93

Filmmaker and photographer Gordon Parks has died. He was 93. Parks captured black America as a photographer for Life magazine, and then became Hollywood's first major black director with the hit Shaft. He also wrote fiction and was an accomplished composer.

Multitalented Artist Gordon Parks Dies at 93

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Tuesday

Obituaries

Gordon Parks, Photographer, Filmmaker, Dies at 93

Legendary photographer, filmmaker, and musician Gordon Parks has died. Parks captured America, but more specifically, black America as a photographer for Life magazine for 20 years. Washington D.C. photographer Jason Miccilo Johnson talks with Michele Norris about Parks, who was a personal mentor to Johnson.

Gordon Parks, Photographer, Filmmaker, Dies at 93

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Friday

Six Months After Katrina

'A Studio in the Woods' Offers Hope for New Orleans

Joe and Lucianne Carmichael say nature's post-Katrina burst of renewal on their land in Orleans Parish offers important lessons to humans trying to recover from Hurricane Katrina.

'A Studio in the Woods' Offers Hope for New Orleans

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Thursday

Culture

A Pulitzer-Winning Photographer's Suicide

Farai Chideya talks to the director of The Death of Kevin Carter, an Oscar-nominated documentary about the life, work and suicide of a Pulitzer-prize winning South African photojournalist haunted by an image of a starving child.

A Pulitzer-Winning Photographer's Suicide

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