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Babbitt, Natalie

(Encyclopedia) Babbitt, Natalie, 1932–2016, American children's book author and illustrator, b. Dayton, Ohio, as Natalie Zane Moore, grad. Smith College, 1954. She illustrated The Forty-Ninth…

Ebola on the Rise

Terrifying disease mystifies, concerns scientists by David Johnson Symptoms begin with fever, exhaustion, stomach pains, and diarrhea. Within a week, the virus…

AIDS on the Rise

2001 UN/WHO Report shows cases increasing by David Johnson The U.N. is raising awareness around the world, as evidenced by this poster for World AIDS Day in German. (Source: UNAids.…

Brewer's: Rise

To take a rise out of one. Hotten says this is a metaphor from fly-fishing; the fish rise to the fly, and are caught. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Rising…

Mercury Rising

Director:Harold BeckerWriters:Lawrence Konner and Mark RosenthalDirector of Photography:Michael SeresinEditor:Peter HonessMusic:John BarryProduction Designer:Patrizia von…

Deep Rising

Director/Writer:Stephen SommersDirector of Photography:Howard AthertonEditors:Bob Ducsay and John WrightMusic:Jerry GoldsmithProduction Designer:Holger GrossProducers:Laurence Mark and John…

Brewer's: Rising in the Air

In the Middle Ages, persons believed that saints were sometimes elevated from the ground by religious ecstasy. St. Philip of Neri was sometimes raised to the height of several yards,…

The Rise and Fall of Roller Coasters

From the Russian countryside to Disneyland by Marcus McGraw and Catherine McNiff Editor's Picks AlpengeistBusch Gardens, Williamsburg, VA Alpengeist is one of the world's fastest…

John Donne: The Sun Rising

The Sun Rising Busy old fool, unruly Sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?…