Night before last, I slowly made headway through the humidity after stuffing my hold at Annapurna. As I passed St. John the Evangelist in North Cambridge, my eyes…
Clarence Darrow (1857-1938), the lawyer who defended evolution in the infamous ‘Scopes Monkey Trial’, has a birth date that fitted him: April 18, the anniversary of Paul Revere’s famous ride. …
Politico reports this morning: “The Senate, following suit with the House, has passed a $600 million bill to increase security along the U.S.-Mexico border. The bill will add more than…
This week, The XVIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010) demanded a global rethink of the War on Drugs. In what is to be called The Vienna Declaration, it called for …