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That's pretty much the way it has been for the character played by Jones, who is also called Jones. He deserted his family to live among the Indians of the Southwest for decades. Except now, on an early-spring day in 1885, he rides out of the forest seeking "the healer," a.k.a. Maggie (Cate Blanchett), who is, in fact, his deeply estranged daughter. She fixes up his minor injury but, understanding that it's just a pretext for a hoped-for reconciliation, angrily rejects...
Charleroi, a grimy, working-class town in southwest Belgium, was big in the Industrial Revolution. Its mines once churned out 10 million tons of coal a year. All that's left of that heyday are 62 slag heaps. Even covered in grass, they're not what you'd call a tourist attraction. Yet approximately 2 million people a year come to this forgettable place - thanks to a revolution in Europe's airline industry. In 2000, Irish discount flyer Ryanair agreed to make an international hub of Charleroi's airport, when the town shaved standard landing charges from...
That is why I found myself, a couple of weekends ago, standing at the general store in a little village in southwest New Hampshire. My parents—as well as a few locals who heard about this piece pre-publication—insisted that I redact the town’s name from this article lest swarms of Crimson readers flock there for leaf-peeping or house-buying. This was probably unnecessary as most college students are not in the New England real estate market. Moreover, my new hometown is one of the smallest in the state and would...
...Baltimore/Washington International airports. He carried aboard contraband such as box cutters and a knife, along with bleach, reddish molding clay (which he hoped would be identified as a plastic explosive) and matches. Frustrated that his efforts were not detected, he finally stowed the items in the lavatories of two Southwest Airlines jets and on Sept. 15 sent federal authorities an email alerting them and identifying himself as the culprit. No one listened. It took a pilot's complaint about a toilet in the rear of a plane for workers to discover the items, which had sat undetected for five weeks...
David H. Grinspoon is a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder Colorado. His book Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life will be published next week...