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The article focuses on "Winter in Springs," a drip painting attributed to Jackson Pollock. In 2005, "Winter in Springs" was stolen from the Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science and Art in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The owner, Arthur Byron Phillips, says he purchased the painting from Pollock in 1951 and lent it to the Everhart. Yet "Winter in Springs" was never authenticated and is not in the complete listing of Pollock's work. It was not insured. Following the art theft, the painting is now being questioned.

Jan Berenstain, who with her husband wrote and illustrated the Berenstain Bears books, gentle best-sellers that enlightened preschoolers for half a century with simple lessons about kindness and tidiness, and reasons not to be afraid of the doctor, died on Friday in Solebury, Pa. She was 88. Her death was confirmed by her publisher, HarperCollins. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

If you closed your eyes, the voices in the hottest local political debate sounded like they issued straight from the giant diaphragm of a certain presidential race. One was the self-designated voice of change, vowing an end to the political stalemate of partisan bickering. The other side invoked the prosaic dependability of worldly experience. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In the seamless way of small towns, people in this neatly combed community of farms and businesses 20 miles south of Harrisburg observe a self-imposed taboo against discussing a subject that consumed everybody, pretty much, just a few years ago. It was the battle between the creationists and the secularists -- or, more accurately, among the previously friendly neighbors who in 2004 shed their cordiality to enlist in an ideological battle when the school board voted to add the so-called intelligent design theory to the ninth-grade biology curriculum. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]