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Is Time Running Out to Find Soldiers’ Remains in Vietnam?
Grief hangs over the frail face of Bui Thi Me, a communist intellectual contemplating the deaths of three of her sons. Continue reading
A Throwback Exercise: Hula Hooping Becomes the Hot New Workout
To get in shape for her October wedding, Dawn-Samantha Cahill, 25, a production coordinator in New York City, tried every exercise routine she could think of. But the upended positions that yoga required made her feel self-conscious Continue reading
A Bath Pub Gets a Hip Makeover
You’ve gone to take the famous waters in the southwestern English city of Bath. And if there’s anything more relaxing than a hot swirling mineral soak, it’s following your wallowing with strong drink and hearty fare Continue reading
Avenging bin Laden: Taliban Unleash Spring Offensive in Afghanistan
Taliban fighters carried out a series of coordinated attacks across the embattled southern Afghan city of Kandahar Saturday — a campaign that Afghan President Hamid Karzai characterized as “revenge” for the death of Osama bin Laden. Insurgents first assaulted the provincial governor’s palace with rocket propelled grenades and small arms fire and then launched a series of strikes across the city on the headquarters of the Afghan National Police and the Transportation Police, on Police Sub-station One as well as various other Afghan National Security Force and International Security and Assistance Force buildings in both Kandahar city and in the Arghandab River Valley, ISAF reported. Continue reading
Killing bin Laden: How the U.S. Finally Got Its Man
The four helicopters chuffed urgently through the Khyber Pass, racing over the lights of Peshawar and down toward the quiet city of Abbottabad and the prosperous neighborhood of Bilal Town. In the dark houses below slept doctors, lawyers, retired military officers — and perhaps Osama bin Laden, the world’s most wanted fugitive Continue reading
Holy Enrollers: Why Boomers Are Going to Divinity School
In July, 64-year-old Patrice Fike sold her home in Coral Gables, Fla., and her Mercedes, stored most of her furniture and moved into a one-room studio where many of her meals are provided. Continue reading
Ad Wars: Is High-Fructose Corn Syrup Really Good for You?
Shopping last week in her local New York City grocery store, Elise Mackin, 32, filled her cart with items she knows to be good for her family — whole grains, fruits and veggies — and shied away from products that contained less wholesome ingredients. “Trans fats are out,” she said, “and anything with high-fructose corn syrup.” The evils of trans fats are well known, but what’s wrong with high-fructose corn syrup? Continue reading
Building On Rock, Not Sand: Riots in Liberty City, Florida
On May 17, 1980, all hell broke loose in Liberty City, Fla. A Tampa jury acquitted four white policemen in the beating death of a black insurance agent, and the heart of Miami’s black community burst into violence Continue reading