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Going Down to the SeaSaving deep-sea ecosystems from destructive bottom trawling is among the issues to be considered in November by the United Nations General Assembly.
Landmines: A New Threat
Antipersonnel landmines that tear bodies apart are a problem now resolved, right? Wrong.
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Their Great Sacrifices
Last spring, when I visited Major Tony De Stefano at Malone House, a guesthouse converted into an inpatient unit at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C., Tony had been there for close to a year.
Writing Warriors
Along with the roughly 2,800 American men and women who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan, 26,000 have been injured, some of them permanently disabled.
A Hopeful People
In response to an invitation from Fundlatin, a Venezuelan ecumenical human rights organization, I joined a delegation of Catholic, evangelical and Protestant Christians in April 2006 to witness the
Leaving Hunger Behind
Collette Kayakez sells dried fish in her urban neighborhood in Lubumbashi, the second-largest city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Not long ago, her business was failing.
The Stem Cell Debate
Orrin Hatch, Utah’s Republican senior senator, is a firm opponent of abortion.
Books and Culture
Books
In 1969 the Apollo astronaut Edwin Aldrin described the “magnificent desolation” of the moon.
Books
Imagine a feasta symposium really, in the ancient Greek sense of the wordin which the aim is not merely to enjoy good food and drink, but al
Books
If you wanted to explain to a visiting Martian what the old American WASP aristocracy was all about, you could find worse examples than Roge
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The Departed is a puzzling name for Martin Scorsese’s remake of the Hong Kong crime action movie “Infernal Affairs” (Lau
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