Literature's next big revolution will be digitized. What's so scary about that? By JACOB WEISBERG Photograph by Anne Katrine Senstad THE POWER OF THE PRESS Printing did not meet with general welcome. . . . The neglect of literary men to note the "Bible of 42 lines" and the "Catholicon" of...
wo weeks before he died, Dr. Carl Sagan dropped by to see Daniel S. Goldin, the NASA Administrator. Sagan was deathly ill. His blue jeans hung limp. He had no hair. His losing battle against the bone-marrow disease myelodysplasia had taken...
A controversial new theory about the true causes of war and peace -- in 18 holes or less. By DAVID PLOTZ United States. Photograph by Matthew Mendelsohn/Corbis. ince the rise of the nation-state, scholars and politicians have been struggling to answer the critical question of geopolitics: Why do...
parley at the summit" was what Winston Churchill called for a half-century ago. He envisioned an intimate get-together of a few world leaders and not a paperbound conference "zealously contested by hordes of experts and officials drawn up in a vast cumbrous array." This week's scheduled summit in...
ASHINGTON -- Allergy sufferers, beware: Global warming could bring more hay fever, according to government research that shows ragweed produces significantly more pollen as carbon dioxide increases. The ubiquitous weed makes nearly twice as much pollen now as it did 100 years ago and will likely...
he book of Genesis mentions three of Adam and Eve's children: Cain, Abel and Seth. But geneticists, by tracing the DNA patterns found in people throughout the world, have now identified lineages descended from 10 sons of a genetic Adam and...
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