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By modern standards， the hostile summit of Mount Llullaillaco， in the Argentine Andes， is no place fro kids. The ancient Inca saw things differently though， and so it was that one day， some 500 years ...

I am a hip-hop head for life. I have tagged my moniker—— “kepo1”——on walls; break-danced on cardboard; bumped elbows with fellow hip-hoppers at legendary clubs like The Rooftop， Union Square and Latin...

On this one point George W. Bush and Al Gore would agree： our schools need more Marilyn Whirrys. For 35 years， Whirry has inspired high school students to think deeply about great literature and to us...

After stepping down this summer as the head of the EPA， the embattled Christine Todd Whitman is once again in the hot seat. This time it’s over her role in the downplaying of health hazards for New Yo...

Imagine asking a presidential candidate to sit down for a sensitivity session on gay and lesbian issues. That’s exactly what we did last week in Austin， Texas. George W. Bush invited us， a dozen gay R...

Jim Boon is a hybrid kind of guy. He drives a Toyota hybrid to work， a Honda hybrid on weekends and， as a manager for Seattle public transit he recently placed the world’s largest order for hybrid ele...

At the close of the Kyoto Global-Warming Treaty discussions held in Bonn last week， exhausted negotiators from nearly every country on earth had reason to be proud. They had done what no one expected—...

Pennsylvania‘s colonial ironmasters forged iron and a revolution that had both industrial and political I implications.The colonists in North America wanted the right to the profits gained from their ...

Europe is often one of the first places people think of when racism is discussed. From the institutionalized racism， especially in colonial times， when racial beliefs—even eugenics—were not considered...

We now must address two questions:Firstly，where on Earth is the population problem the worst?It is my opinion that the world’s worst population problem is right here in the United States. This is beca...