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Stories like these are being repeated across the tribal region of Pakistan, a rugged no-man's-land that forms the country's border with Afghanistan--and that is rapidly becoming home base for a new generation of potential terrorists. Fueled by zealotry and hardened by war, young religious extremists...
Conservationists saved a few--there were probably more bison at the Bronx Zoo in 1900 than there were in all of Oklahoma--and gradually bison were reintroduced to natural habitats like the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. But it wasn't until the '70s, when ranchers began acquiring bison with an...
At the start of Jane Smiley’s latest novel, a Hollywood director tells his girlfriend he wants to make a movie in the bedroom, about the bedroom. He would call it “My Lovemaking with Elena” (like “My Dinner with Andr?...
Just a day after the Danish capital's neighborhoods were illuminated by burning cars and Molotov cocktails amid fierce battles between activists and police, only rubble remains of the Youth House, the citadel that the young rebels had fought so hard to preserve. Monday morning, under police protection, masked demolition...
Flowers and candles left on the sidewalk normally signify the mourning of sudden death by violence or accident. But in Copenhagen's Norrebro district, this week, they marked the passing of a controversial, 25-year old refuge for rebellious young malcontents that has improbably become a cause celebre across Europe...