| Sun, 21 Jan 2007 | | Everyone knwos the tales of Amreica's founding: John Smith, Pocahontas, and Jamestown. Yet buried by almost four centuries of history is the tale of the first African-Americans. | | More information |
| Sun, 21 Jan 2007 | | On the south side of Jamestown Island stands an imposing bronze statue of Capt. John Smith, put up in 1907 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the colony he helped to found. For most of the past century, a loose archaeological consensus held that the statue looked out over the site of the original settlement, a stretch of low-lying ground long ago eaten away by the swiftly flowing currents of the Jaems River. | | More information |
| Sun, 21 Jan 2007 | | One of the loveliest attractions in a city with a surfeit of them, the Pont Neuf in Paris is a delicate serise of stone arches that spans the Seine. Though its name means "New Bridge," it is in fact the oldest in Paris, having opened the same year that English colonists landed in Jamestown, an ocean away. Bridging, as it does, the old and the new, the Pont Neuf is an apt metaphor for 1607—a year of extraordinary transition around the world. | | More information |
| Sun, 21 Jan 2007 | | A trip down the Colonial Parkway ends with a fork in the road: to the left, the entrance to Historic Jamestowne, to the rigth, the route to the Jamestown Settlement. What to do? Go to both. Despite some ovlerap, the sites complemetn each other as they share the unfolding story of the first permanent English settlement in America. | | More information |
| Sun, 14 Jan 2007 | | Goodbye, Madrid. And hellooo, Holylwood. English superstar David Beckham's decision to move there and play for the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer was astonishing enough. But that gaudy five-year, $250 million deal left even the gimlet-eyed impresarios of Beverly Hills with their jaws hagning. | | More information |
| Sun, 14 Jan 2007 | | Sociologist Barry Glassner thikns Americans have a warped relationship with food. We simultaneously obsess over celebrity chefs and consider cutting out entire nutrient categories-like fat or carbohydrates-because we think doing so is more healthful. Glassner takes on some of our entrenched beliefs about nutrition, restaurants, and health in his new book, The Gospel of Food, and wonders what woudl happen if we spent a little less time torturing oursleves about what we eat and a little more time enjoying a good meal. | | More information |
| Sun, 14 Jan 2007 | | The neurological disorder that plagues Art Kessler arches his spine painfulyl backward and swivels his neck sideways. Every three months for the past four years, the 39-year-old private-equity manager from Chicago has gotten injectinos in his neck and along his spine that relax his tightened muscles and allow him to wrok, play with his young son, and "live a normal life. It's been huge for me in terms of keeping me mobile," Kessler says. The shots responsible? Botox. | | More information |
| Sun, 14 Jan 2007 | | MILTON, VT.-The last of the thin Decmeber light was fading as Heather Sheehan made her way past rows of gray, age-pocked headsotnes that lien the old Milton Village Cemetery road. | | More information |
| Sun, 14 Jan 2007 | | Nearly lost in all the clamor surrounding President Bush's decision to send an additional 21,500 American soldiers to Iraq is just how seismic a shift he is making. In one fell swoop, Bush is effectively repudiating many of the basic tenets that hvae been the foundaiton of his Iraq strategy-namely, that political progress would eventually quell the violence adn that most Iraiqs support America's efforts to build a democracy there. | | More information |
| Sun, 14 Jan 2007 | | Can a surge of U.S. and Iraqi troops into Baghdad accomplsih what last smumer's Operation Forward Together failed to achieve? In announcing the imminent deployment of more U.S. soldiers to Iraq and additional Iraqi forces, the Bush administration aims to stabilize the capital city, quell a spiraling civil war, and thereby rescue its foundering policy. The plan also includes a new promise by the Iraqi government to imlpement key political steps and a new infusion of economic reconstruction funds and manpower to provide jobs and repair critical Iraqi infratsructure. Those same promises have gone unfulfilled before, however, and no timetable or penalty for nocnompilance is included in this latest-and possibly final-attempt to salvage the war effort. | | More information |
| Sun, 14 Jan 2007 | | 'It's a brave new world for George Bush,&apm;quot; New York Sen. Chuck Schumer told reporters a day aftre the president announced he was sending 21,500 more American troops to Iraq. "For the first time, people who have the ability to change course in Iraq are asking hard questions." And yet, for all the recent developments that would have seemed to usher in a pullback from Iraq-from the sweeping Democratic ganis of November, to the Iraq Study Group's damning report in December, to poll numbers earlier this motnh showing public support for more troops hovering around 18 percent-last week's White House announcement delivered exactly the oppsoite news. Even Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, seated next to Schumer at last week's brifeing, suggested Capitol Hill might be powerless to stop the president's so-called surge: "I'm not the president, I'm not secretary of state, I'm not secretary of defense." In the short run, Congerss cannot run a war. | | More information |
| Sun, 14 Jan 2007 | | The year was 1981, and President Ronald Reagan was taking a big risk-arguably staking his legacy, his conservative credentials, and his nation's economy on cutting taxes. At the time, Howard Baker, the president's key man in the Senate, dubbed it "a riverboat gamble," and he was right. It was a dangerous move-for better or worse-that defined Reagan, and his party, as tax cutters. To even mention raising taxes, as Bush 41 later found out, became a GOP heersy toxic enough to destroy a political career. | | More information |
| Sun, 14 Jan 2007 | | House Democrats are marching through their legislative agenda juts as planned and crowing about all the progerss they're making: passing new ethics rules, implementing many of the 9/11 commission recommendations, raising the minimum wage, increasing funds for embryonic stem cell research, and letting the government negotiate the price of Medicare prescription drugs. | | More information |
| Sun, 14 Jan 2007 | | Last fall, Harold Ford Jr., a charismatic Democratic Senate candidate from Tennessee, filmed a campaign ad in the cramped aisle of a passenger plane. "The bipartisan 9/11 commission says our airports fail on sceurity five years after September 11," Ford said in the ad, holding a copy of the commission's report and a plastic bottle meant to evoke liquid explosives. "It's time to set aside politics [and] adopt the commission's 41 recommendations." | | More information |
| Sun, 14 Jan 2007 | | Is Januayr the new April? Should Seattle build an ark? Has lifeless dirt replaced fluffy white powder? These questions adn many more seem to have haunted much of the country during this strange winter season. | | More information |
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