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"The Cold Fusion Yo-Yo" "by Duncan , a high-tech precision 62g aircraft aluminum yo-yo with steel ballbearigs. World record 7...

Books and Covers During the transition from the Carter to the Reagan administration William F. Buckley, Jr. said that he anticipated that...

On "Dead Sparrow Overshadows Domino World" I did not know that there was a "Domino World." I have heard of a "Raid...

"Dead Sparrow Oveshadows Domino World" Linguists like Noam Chomsky have given examples of meaningless sentences that can be constr...

Art and Science Piece; Abstract, Draft One Economically, militarily, technologically, scientifically and culturally America is to varying de...

Art Piece, Draft Two, Part Two A passenger on one of the first trains in England breathlessly wrote to her mother about what it was like for...

The Aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita 799-0. That is the number of dead as a result of the two hurricanes as reported in CNN this wee...

Art Piece, Draft Two, Part One Until about the mid-fifteenth century in the West the presently distinct disciplines of philosophy, art and s...

Today is Sept. 11 I'm not near over this yet. -Benjamin Harris

Barbara Bush, Class, Race and the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina Barbara Bush is in her dotage but it is a Republican dotage. Age, like booz...

Annabel Lee's August 25 article "Why I'm Divorced And why you're next," is a delightful piece. I found it on Arts and ...

Part Two The Industrial Revolution was treated socially, politically and scientifically as unstoppable and as the most glorious manifestatio...

Part One In the West from ancient times until about the mid-fifteenth century (1) art, philosophyand science were essentially the same thing...

Preventing Another Katrina FACT: Hurricanes in the southeast in summer are as predictable as frost in Vermont in October. They cause billion...

Medium, Message, Race and the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina I have no television, no computer, and I don't listen to the radio. I get t...

Hurricane Finis "But for the grace of God..." is the reaction of many that Hurricane Katrina did not make a direct hit on New Orle...

Re-Wilding North America By now this idea under this title has gained a certain level of popular currency. First appearing in the 18 August ...

Dream-Work I hate dreams. In my late teens, having had one too many of these phantasmagoria, I adopted a mantra that I had read about in, li...

Lord God For sixty-one years a spectacular species of bird has clung tenaciously and anonymously to life in an obscure wetlands area in Arka...

"Subject: SPJ LEADS: Death threats can be fun (and other moments of jocularity)" Actual email I received from them today.

ANY CLUB THAT WOULD HAVE ME AS A MEMBER... I have been accepted into the Society of Professional Journalists. Li'l respect, please. Thei...

CLASHES OF CIVILIZATIONS For about a year I've had a bumpersticker on my car, "ISLAM HAS BLOODY BORDERS." I've gotten rem...

Remembrance of Remembrance I can count on about one finger the number of books I've reread. So many books, so little time. An...