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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 desperate…[more]Photographs by Eamon Mac Mahon
Nature
Danger Signs
by Larry Frolick
Was the sea trying to warn them a killer wave was on the way?…[more]
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Imaginings
POETSMART™
by Susan Holbrook
Just like people, poets can develop unhealthy, adverse, and sometimes dangerous habits. Poets are cute but, let’s…[more]
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…[more]
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…[more]
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…[more]
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…[more]
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]
Sporting Life
Marathon Man
by Lawrence Hill
At age 74, Ed Whitlock is one of the fastest men on earth …[more]
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…[more]
Dispatches
Al Rashad
by Rita Leistner
Inside Baghdad’s largest psychiatric hospital, during an insane war…[more]
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…[more]
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…[more]
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