In the 38-year war on cancer, improved screening was the single most important change and one of the biggest bargains.
Americans have developed an admirable fondness for books, food, and music that preprocess other cultures. But for all our enthusiasm, have we lost our taste for the truly foreign?
A veteran White House press secretary thinks it is time to blow up the 35-year-old model of having one overexposed spokesperson be ground zero for every question.
America’s national security structure is designed to confront the challenges of the last century rather than our own.
New research reveals that spice was not used in medieval times to mask the taste of rancid meat, but rather to infuse good meat with the sweet-sour flavor that was the epitome of the fashionable cooking of the era.
Doubling the budget of the National Institutes of Health during the Clinton and Bush administrations has had the curious effect of leading to less biomedical research.
HORSES AT WORK
Harnessing Power in Industrial America
By Ann Norton Greene
Illustrated. 322 pp. Harvard University Press. $29.95
The most optimistic national estimatesshow Russia’s population falling to 136 million in 2020, down from 141 million today. Life expectancy in Russia is among the lowest in the developed world.
A. J. Loftin reviews a history of witch-hunting, concluding that "If witches existed, John Demos would have found them."