Holiday Travel

It’s hard to avoid traveling Over The holidays but the experience I had last week really Takes the cake. I flew back to Tucson, Arizona, to be with my wife’s family, as we do

How a Tribe is Battling Loggers With a Drone They Built Watching YouTube

In Guyana, where forests cover over 80 percent of the country, the threat of illegal logging is ever present. A lot of the time, it’s hard to even know if it’s happening. That’s in

Company Profiles

Roberta: What are you working on? Lee: Oh, I’m writing the Company profiles for the businesses participating in the meeting next month. Do you have a minute to give me some Feedback? Roberta: Sure,

Morella на английском языке писателя Edgar Allan Poe

Itself, by itself, solely, one everlasting, and single. Plato: Sympos. With a feeling of deep yet most singular affection I regarded my friend Morella. Thrown by accident into her society many years ago, my

Matt Damon, Ben Affleck paid for auditions from joint bank account

“When I look back at that, a 16 and 14 year old, we were really young to be taking the bus by ourselves to New York and spending a day going to an audition

Last Leaf на английском языке писателя O. Henry

In a little district west of Washington Square the streets have run crazy and broken themselves into small strips called “places.” These “places” make strange angles and curves. One street crosses itself a time

STANDING UP IN COURT

In the dreaded French impotence trials, performance anxiety took on new meaning. Ink the Spanish Inquisition was harsh? Just as intimidating to many men were the French impotence courts of the 16th and 17th

Dean Karnazes: the man who can run for ever

Most runners have to stop when they reach their lactate threshold, but Dean Karnazes’ muscles never tire: he can run for three days and nights without stopping. What’s his secret? From club runners to

Insulting Other People

Lourdes: Do you see those teenagers over there? They’re making trouble again. Nick: Those kids are just Messing around. When they get bored, they’ll Pipe down and go home. Lourdes: They’re really Getting on

Having a Slumber Party

Russ: Mom says you’re having a Slumber party next Saturday. Irene: I’m just having a few friends over for a Sleepover and it’s None of your business. Russ: Don’t be like that. How many