Memo to all Obama supporters so outraged about the cover that they are spending hours blogging, commenting, and otherwise fulminating about it: Pleas…
Read moreToday is the "national holiday" (Fete Nationale) in France, and as every year, there was a parade this morning down the Avenue des Champs-É…
Read moreMy wife and I spent the morning at the Musée du Luxembourg , where an exhibition marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Fauvist painter Maurice…
Read moreVélib, the bicycle-sharing system in Paris, is one year old on July 15. There are some 20,000 bicycles and 1500 stations throughout the city. The sys…
Read moreIn a post yesterday I talked about some details coming out of New Yorker writer Jane Mayer's new book about the Bush administration's "…
Read moreI've been monitoring this story since last week when the U.S. denied causing civilian deaths in ai…
Read moreThe New York Times today has a preview of New Yorker writer Jane Mayer's new book, "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror…
Read moreThat's the question raised by a new study I report on in a brief news item in today's issue of Science. Rice farming takes place in a wetlan…
Read moreSerial rabbit killers, discrimination against gays, Obama's sellout of civil liberties--this blog is getting downright depressing. Time for somet…
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