Richard Neal Camphill artist.
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] When I visited Camphill Village USA (located in Copake, New York), a community centered around the care of developmentally disabled adults, in May, I had a chance to talk with Richard Neal. I have been admiring his artwork for the past few years because a...

New York Times crossword goofs: (continued from Vol. 40, February 2007).
2002 Date: 8/17. Clue: Stowe slave. Answer: EVA. Problem: In "Uncle Tom's Cabin," Eva was the daughter of the slaveowner Augustine St. Clare. Topsy was the slave girl. Date: 7/15. Clue: Prime rate setter, with "the." Answer: FED. Problem: Individual banks set the prime rate,...

Fundraiser comes to aid of former Boys Trade star.
Byline: Nick Manzello COLUMN: SPORTS STREET Mike Vendetti, the former Nichols College football coach and a member of the school's Hall of Fame, called to inform Sports Street that the Oxford home and furnishings of former Boys Trade and Boston University football standout Don Defeudis...

Older LDL agent may find new role in diabetes care: [HbA.sub.1c] dropped half a percentage point.
SEATTLE -- The LDL-lowering agent colesevelam also lowers blood glucose levels significantly in type 2 diabetes patients already on oral diabetes medication, according to two studies presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. In the studies, adding colesevelam (WelChol) to patients" diabetes...

Kudzu artist Marlette dies in car crash.
Doug Marlette, whose editorial cartoons often lampooned fundamentalist religion but whose folksy comic strip Kudzu celebrated a rural Southern Baptist pastor, was killed in an automobile accident July 10. He was 57. The Pulitzer Prize winner, who recently joined the staff of the Tulsa World, died near...

Graduates and superintendent bid adieu.
Byline: Chris Sinacola HUDSON - "I know that I have a reputation for long speeches," Superintendent of Schools Sheldon H. Berman told the class of 2007, family and friends at Sunday's 133rd graduation exercises for Hudson High School. Then he paused and smiled. "This one will be...

Bucks for Brooks, high hopes for UK.
Byline: Bob Clark The Register-Guard Rich Brooks said `the stomach starts churning' when the first game of a season approaches, and so it is as he nears the opener of his fifth fall at Kentucky. `There's always the big butterflies that are floating around inside...

LDL drug may find new role as oral diabetes medication.
SEATTLE -- The LDL-lowering agent colesevelam also lowers blood glucose levels significantly in type 2 diabetes patients already on oral diabetes medication, according to two studies presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. In the studies, adding colesevelam (Wel-Chol) to patients' diabetes...

Heart of the Cross: A Postcolonial Christology.
HEART OF THE CROSS: A POSTCOLONIAL CHRISTOLOGY. By W. Anne Joh. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox, 2006. Pp. 192. $24.95. While this study, through the use of postcolonial theory, poststructuralist psychoanalysis, and political-liberationist-feminist hermeneutics, provides insight into the theology of the cross, it achieves its distinctiveness as...

Photograffiti.
Oh, what heights we'll hit. On with the show, this is it ... Photo-G: PO Box 884570 SF, CA, 94188 Matt Ballard mangles a mural with this front noser in Louisville, KY. Photo: Collins [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The gang's all here. Paul Hurtado 'hanas...