Bright lights? Strange floating figures? The jury's still out on an afterlife, but at least some reported phenomena seem to have natural explanations.
There are all kinds of reasons for America's obesity problem, but the most likely culprits lie in uncomfortable areas.
WELLINGTON’S RIFLES:
Six Years to Waterloo with England’s Legendary Sharpshooters.
By Mark Urban
Has intellectual life lost its "urgent core," as one critic suggests, or, as another says, are we merely seeing "the democratization of criticism"?
During a time that some called the Age of Conformity, one magazine lampooned even the most sacred topics.
The new United States of Europe has more people, more wealth, and more tradethan the United States of America. Yet Americans have largely ignored the change in Europe. They do so at some risk, for Europe’s goal is to rival and surpass America—and one of the powerful motives urging Europeans toward that goal is the disdain many of them now share for America.
Results of term limits on state legislators may be encouraging to supporters.
Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois were pioneers in the quest for African-American equality in America. They were also bitter rivals. What’s sometimes overlooked is that their years of public confrontation were preceded by a decade of cautious mutual regard.
Public radio is trading music for news in pursuit of listeners (and ad revenues), but it was supposed to be immune from such pressures.