Author: Kellie Houx
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Welcome to the Atomic Age
There's almost a sense of irony that one native son of Independence, President Harry S. Truman, gave the order to drop the atomic bombs first on Hiroshima and then on Nagasaki, Japan, and another native son, Michael Scheibach, Ph.D., captures the impact the atomic bomb had on children and adolescents during the first decade after the bombings in 1945.
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Quixotic Fusion: Art in Motion
The act of fusion is to merge diverse, distinct, or separate elements into a unified whole while quixotic has the connotation that the word has a loftiness and romance to it and perhaps a little bit of impracticality to it all. These two words form the name of an exciting multimedia performance art group that has a significant fan base in Kansas City.