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Chronogram 07.2006

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On the Cover Fourth of July - digital collage.
Featured Contributors.
Esteemed Reader.
Writing Contest.
Editor's Note.

News & Politics
Framed: The Politics of Language Lorna Tychostup interviews linguistics expert and Berkeley professor George Lakoff, author of Whose Freedom? The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea, about how framing is used in the political arena as shorthand for perceived truths.
Beinhart's Body Politic Political observer and author Larry Beinhart (Wag the Dog) examines the troubling details behind the $19.5 billion Iraq rip-off in a new column.

Arts & Culture
Portfolio Sculptor Kathy Ruttenberg's figurative ceramics.
Lucid Dreaming Beth E. Wilson previews a traveling exhibition of Op Art from the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo at the New York State Museum in Albany.
Music Sharon Nichols listens in to the transmission artists of free103point9 who run the Wave Farm in Greene County. CD Reviews, Nightlife Highlights.
Books Nina Shengold profiles novelist and Hudson Valley native T.C. Boyle. Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta; The Golden Hour by Nicholas Weinstock; The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee, Short Takes.
Fiction Swan Song by Darlene Rivais.
Poetry Poems by Burton Aldrich, Paul Andre de Beaumont, Alan Catlin, Jennifer Pruden Colligan, E. K. Gordon, Rebecca Maker, Jesslyn Roebuck, Frank Serpico, Randy Way, and Martin Zemlock.

Community Notebook
The Kids Are Alright Jay Blotcher profiles Global Youth Connect, a Kingston-based nongovernmental organization that educates youth about human rights through trips to areas of former conflict, like Rwanda and Guatemala.
Art of Business Shannon Gallagher tours Gnome on the Grange, a new mini-golf course at Kelder's Farm in Kerhonkson designed by mini-golf afficianado Maria Reidelbach.

Whole Living Guide
Your Inner Cannabis Lorrie Klosterman examines the endocannabinoid system—the cellular pathways and marijuana-like chemicals in our physiology.
Inner Vision Pauline Uchmanowicz talks with area "transition specialists" about the ins and outs of being a life coach, part motivation counselor, part spiritual adviser.

Planet Waves
Grand Square Dancing Eric Francis Coppolino examines the effects of Saturn on Jupiter, Neptune, and Chiron.
Horoscopes.

Culinary Adventures
Flour Power Eric Steinman spends four days at the Culinary Institute of America learning the ins and outs of flour and yeast at Baking Bootcamp.
Q&A: Asian Grilling with Corinne Trang Jennifer May talks serious barbecue with the Stone Ridge resident dubbed "the Asian Julia Child".

Parting Shot
How a Great Daily Organ is Turned Out An etching by Richard Hamilton.