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NEWS AND OPINION

By Daniel Denvir 

Not Home Alone

For years Joe Pepe has fought tenaciously to hold on to his independence and stay out of nursing homes. He worked as an accountant and treasurer for a Philadelphia-area company, as a health insurance agent and then in the late ’80s got involved with the disability rights movement, worried that he would be institutionalized. 
Now he is fighting to make sure his homecare attendant is compensated well enough to help him stay at home. It's an uphill fight.

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Posted Jun. 9, 2009 | Comments: 15

ARTS AND CULTURE

By Roberta Fallon

Sea Beasts Take Up Residence at the Fabric Workshop and Museum

Characters talk at a furious pace and the sound is sometimes distorted to the point of incomprehensibility. Some of what you can hear is pretty chilling in its mimicking of the earnest sales pitches we often hear on commercials. “I’m really young and post-device and everything’s in me,” says one young woman. “Destruction of our values should not be seen as a failure but an opportunity,” says another.

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Posted Jun. 9, 2009 | Comments: 0

NEWS AND OPINION

Letters: Gardahell Reconsidered

Lots of response to Tara Murtha's recent cover story about Gardasil, the HPV vaccine.

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Posted Jun. 9, 2009 | Comments: 5

SCREEN

By Matt Prigge 

Six Novelists Who Wrote Screenplays

In an attempt to buy some class, Hollywood execs ate up the era’s great, cash-strapped novelists—authors like Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and Raymond Chandler, who then drank themselves into oblivion. They even adapted each other’s work.

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Posted Jun. 9, 2009 | Comments: 0