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Having read your article on the possible resumption of whaling by some countries, I am appalled at how we humans have not learned the lessons of the past. Whalers kill these gentle giants by shooting them with harpoons tipped with grenades, which explode inside a whale's body. We, through...
It took a chance encounter with a Presbyterian pastor to do that. A few years ago Edwards' pastor in Lexington happened to tell her a story about a man in his 40s who discovered that he had a brother with Down syndrome whom he'd never met - the brother had...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Surrounded by pink flowers and an audience of reporters, First Lady Hillary Clinton sat by the fireplace in the State Dining Room, wrapped in a piped pink sweater, her lips covered in a thick red gloss, her forehead hidden behind a wall of bangs. The...
Gates learned that he had a fifth-great-grandfather who served in the Revolutionary War during the filming of “African American Lives,” a series he hosted on PBS this past spring which traced the genealogies of prominent African Americans.
NAIROBI, Kenya—It is my third visit in as many summers to sub-Saharan Africa. I now realize being even slightly bright-eyed and bushy-tailed was foolish. My first day here, waking to the dawn, having a quick tea, sharpening pencils, readying my digital camera, powering up...