![]() By 2008 it had been razed, leaving a gaping hole in the city center. When Germany reunited in 1990, the building was found to be ridden with asbestos and closed. ![]() For good measure, they later built a convention center–like structure called the Palace of the Republic on the site. After that section of the city became part of East Germany in 1949, the country’s rulers demolished it to signal their break with the past. When Berlin was divided by the Allied powers after World War II, the palace, which had been heavily damaged by bombing, lay in the Soviet zone. The building is a reconstruction of the Stadtschloss, or City Palace, the main residence of the Hohenzollerns from 1443 to 1918, as they evolved from a family of counts and dukes to one of kings and kaisers. Partially clad in a Baroque façade of glowing cherubs, gods, and lions, Berlin’s Humboldt Forum was conceived as a way to make a shattered city whole. ![]()
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![]() Following a legendary set at the Bridgestone Arena, she was joined by her step-father Larry Strickland and The Gaithers for a stirring rendition of the Christian hymn "How Great Thou Art. In this case, it was the second show-stopping performance of the weekend by Wynonna Judd. ![]() Just as before any Sunday dinner, a benediction was offered. However, a victory of the proceedings was in noting how well-regarded Lynn was, too. The project is being heralded as a celebration of women, and nowhere is that more evident than on the title track. ![]() ![]() A storied and incredibly lived life was memorialized during "Coal Miner's Daughter: A Celebration of the Life & Music of Loretta Lynn." The 90-minute, CMT-broadcasted Grand Ole Opry event felt as comfortable and gratifying as a Southern, countrified fried chicken dinner on a Sunday evening.įor an artist who lived 90 years, long enough, as Brandi Carlile - one of 38 artists to honor Lynn live or via video at the ceremony - noted, to be her hero's hero, Lynn's story is relatively well known. Loretta Lynn and Patsy Lynn Russell Photo credit: Coal Miner’s Daughter Museum. ![]() ![]() Companies have also withheld or manipulated facts about statins and popular drugs like Trulicity and Humira, which costs $78,000 per year. ![]() In an especially alarming chapter, Abramson shows how repeated changes in insulin have made it vastly more expensive for people with diabetes with little-if any-benefit. The corruption began in the 1990s, when drug companies took control of clinical trials from academic medical centers 6 out of 7 trials are now funded commercially by sponsors who have no obligation to show their data to medical journals. Linking the problem to a corporate shift to chasing profitability untethered from social responsibility, the author shows how corporations have hijacked sources of information doctors once could trust, such as medical journals, educational conferences, and lectures. ![]() A family physician and Harvard Medical School lecturer exposes the sordid tactics big pharma uses to jack up drug prices and con doctors about the facts they need to provide good care.Ībramson makes a powerful case that, over the past 40 years, profiteering drug companies have played an outsized role in two crises: the soaring costs of health care and America’s plunging “healthy life expectancy,” ranked 68th in the world in 2019. ![]() |