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Robert Stone’s experience as a war correspondent is forever linked in his mind with a haunting passage from "King Lear."
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The "Dog Soldiers" author confesses to missing the psychedelic experience of the ‘60s, which was "strange and very frightening" but also yielded some deeper truths about reality.
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As a boy, Robert Stone loved tales of "romantic adventure." In the Navy he got to experience one himself, as a member of the Antarctic expedition "Operation Deep Freeze III."
The U.S. has an increasing military presence in Yemen which is seen as the next potential training ground for Al Qaeda operatives.
That the Nigerian terrorist was not investigated is due to a massive database of 500,000 possible terrorists, officials say.
Political opponents have been arrested, as many as eight killed and over 300 arrested as protests in Iran take a violent turn.
As climate change legislation gets more attention more businesses are lobbying Congress to get their piece of the pie.
China is scheduled to execute a Briton convicted of smuggling heroin despite claims that he is severely mentally ill.
New research suggests that disinfectants can train bacteria to resist antibiotics they have never been exposed to before.
Britain will send $80 million to support the Palestinian Authority, help Gazans through the winter and pay teachers in U.N. schools.
Obama has largely ignored Latin America but economic engagement is still necessary for everybody, writes The New Republic.
Sexually deceptive orchids that give off the odor of female insects trick lustful males into carrying off pollen.
Structural barriers to women’s rights in Iraq are loosening as women increasingly populate the national police force.
Benjamin Sparrow, in his book Uncertain Guardians, cites an industry research report when he states “the people who create the public images of elected officials, those to be elected, and […]
Of all the writers to emerge from the psychedelic '60s, few have endured as long at the top of their craft as Robert Stone. In a candid interview with Big […]
Since my first vivid political memories were of Bill Clinton, who campaigned on V-chips and school uniforms to win reelection to the presidency, I rely on others’ accounts of how […]
The intellectual trap of exploring a new place — whether through actual travel or by reading a book set there — is the practically unconscious assumption that we can generalize. […]
Families who have lost income during the recession are planning their finances better and even saving money.
An archeological dig in Nazareth has uncovered the home of “a simple Jewish family” in a neighborhood Jesus may have known.