Nor is it an aberration. Still, many Americans feel strongly that somehow violence is not the same thing it has always been. There is, I think, another important difference in what violence is today and in how we are experiencing it. By Gabrielle Kurlander. Sorting through pockets and purses used to be fun, but not anymore.
Metallic currency is thoroughly boring.
This is a national disgrace. By Jeffrey Shaffer. North Koreans survive by eating mountain grasses, roots, seaweed, and tree bark. Yet the international community is more concerned with brokering a peace treaty to replace the armistice from the Korean War than in relieving the vast hunger sapping the energy of these children and scarring them for life. By Hilary Mackenzie.