Part I Following my recent tour of the Petropavlovsk gold project in Eastern Russia, I opted to return home by a somewhat circuitous route, spending two days in Haida Gwaii, off ...
Missiles fired from the Chinese mainland could destroy five of the six major U.S. air bases in the Far East. So states a new report of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review ...
Barack Obama's election was an anomaly, a lurch backward. It defied the apparently inevitable and stood athwart history crying, "Stop!" It has been clear for at least ten ...
If it is the first responsibility of the Federal Reserve to protect the dollars that Americans earn and save, is it not dereliction of duty for the Fed to pursue a policy to bleed ...
Looking back on it now, "lunacy" is the word that springs most readily to mind. It was Easter 1967. I was just sixteen and had signed up to go on a school trip to Russia ...
Typical documentaries, such as Waiting for "Superman" and Freakonomics, are made by people who know more about lenses and lighting than about their subjects. In contrast, ...
Last Friday, separate officials in Dubai and England intercepted packages containing bombs in the cargo sections of two USA-bound planes. Each bomb was deemed capable of ...
America's midterm elections are on Tuesday, but they"ve already voted for their favorite news network, and it sure as hell ain"t the Microsoft/National Broadcasting ...
"I wouldn"t like to go to prison," said Gimlet. "The idea is a very unpleasant one." I had to agree with him. "The conditions are bleak and dispiriting, ...
Few causes could get the heads of the BBC, Channel 4, the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Guardian and Mirror to co-sign a letter to the government. What unites these disparate ...
Controversy recently erupted when Rick Sanchez, whom CNN subsequently sacked, noted that Jews have a disproportionately large influence on the media. Attempts at disproving his ...
"Look at the size of those women!" exclaimed Gimlet as four enormous ladies waddled past the window. "They ought to be ashamed of themselves. You would never have seen ...
The guests were singing maudlin folksongs trying to drown out the TV's noxious noises. Live Aid had been going on apparently forever and would go on for weary hours more, and even ...
"In the Bengal Club at Calcutta they don"t allow dogs or Indians, but in the Yacht Club at Bombay, they don"t mind dogs; it's only Indians they don"t ...
Philadelphia's City Hall is a towering masonry masterpiece, an ornate and stately 548-foot-tall architectural wedding cake in a town not known for its beauty. However, as anyone ...
Something called the Clinton Global Initiative has been brought to my attention by an AP dispatch dated September 21st entitled “Bill Clinton: Economy, disasters imperil ...
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