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Down by the riverside, new nukes

Over the past year, a group of nuclear physicists has been studying a site on the banks of a beautiful river. Hidden from international nuclear inspectors, they are drawing up plans for a new facility, possibly...

CARTOON

The real buzz about disappearing bees

There is much excitement in the newspapers and on the radio and TV about the mysterious disappearing honeybees. Many people were not aware of this, but it is true that one-third of our food depends on...

How a Karl Rove PowerPoint presentation works

I first heard of Karl Rove on July 30, 2003. Tom Hamburger’s Wall Street Journal story about Rove’s PowerPoint presentation to officials at the Department of the Interior finally revealed to me, as they say, the...

LETTERS

This poem is dedicated to Cindy Sheehan and all the mothers, American and Iraqi, who have lost children in this immoral war.Life and death Words mediate between these truths and state-induced inertia to ask the imponderable...