April 2005
"We are whores for power and oil, with hate and fear in our hearts."
- Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)
April 2005
Shifting Sands
by Don Gillmor
Canada has plenty of oil, while China and the US are thirsty and desperatePhotographs by Eamon Mac Mahon
Sporting Life
Marathon Man
by Lawrence Hill
At age 74, Ed Whitlock is one of the fastest men on earth
Books
Cities in a Raw Young Century
by Randy Boyagoda
Bombay, Tehran, and Prague, in all their madness and excess, refuse to conform to Western notions of the modern city
More Stories in this issue
Field Notes
The Real Easy
by Brent Preston
NEW ORLEANS—The city of New Orleans’ official tourism website has some stern advice for would-be visitors to its most famous
Sightings
Peace and Order vs. Glorious and Free
by Ken Alexander
As we moved from T-shirts to down parkas and back to T-shirts again during this winter of climate change—one day
Field Notes
Wall-to-wall Politics
by David Sax
Buenos aires—Late last year, with Argentina’s economy continuing its rebound and the country’s
Religion
‘Til Decree Do Us Part
by Joan Bryden
The Catholic Church holds traditional marriage sacred, but it’s handing out annulments by the thousands
Field Notes
Medical Mystery
by Larry Krotz
Nairobi—Jane Kamene, one of the nurses, took me into a back room and hauled out a large black book with red
Field Notes
Another Hypnotic Prairie Night
by Patricia Robertson
WAKAW—It has been a dull, dark winter in the small palindrome-town of Wakaw where I’ve recently put down roots. My partner Grant and I
Dispatches
Al Rashad
by Rita Leistner
Inside Baghdad’s largest psychiatric hospital, during an insane war
Fiction
Wireless
by Lynn Coady
Jane salutes you from an age where to be an aficionado is to find yourself foolishly situated in the world. Where to
Detail
Superior Fox
by Karen Knorr
I have been using animals in my photographs since 1979. It started with a photograph that included two dogs that
Imaginings
POETSMART™
by Susan Holbrook
Just like people, poets can develop unhealthy, adverse, and sometimes dangerous habits. Poets are cute but, let’s
