In 2001, the United Nations General Assembly declared this decade the "Decade for the Promotion of a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for Children of the World." It set out eight goals to achieve by 2010, with the umbrella goal on the list promoting "respect of all human rights." Respect for human rights should be a given. The fact that the UN had to broadcast it on a list of goals heightens the disarray we've subjected ourselves over the last 10 years. ...more

December 19, 2009

Pain needs a voice. We describe what hurts to the doctor and he gives us a prescription to fix it, or tells us what to do. Saying what hurts us makes it possible to get well, and we're all good at describing the symptoms. "I have a sharp pain on the left side of my stomach." "I see bright wavy lines that dance around for a few minutes and then my head throbs." ...more

March 18, 2009

A British national who started out trying to sell a radioactive isotope from Russia pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge. ...more

January 20, 2009

A man at the center of a case that began with a plan to sell a radioactive, dirty bomb component has agreed to plead guilty to a federal drug charge. ...more

January 17, 2009

A man at the center of a case that began with a plan to sell a radioactive, dirty bomb component has agreed to plead guilty to a federal drug charge. Christopher Benbow, 64, was sentenced in 2007 to life in prison, but had his drug conviction overturned by a federal appeals court. He was scheduled to go on trial again later this month. ...more

January 16, 2009

A sweet potato is not related to the potato. Nor is it related to a yam. It is its own, delicious thing and deserves widespread admiration beyond token holiday meals. ...more

January 10, 2009

Here's the scenario: It's Friday night, and what began as an innocent happy-hour margarita morphed into a few pitchers. After all, those tacos were salty. ...more

October 8, 2008

with the Packers trading QB Brett Favre to an AFC team. Even so, the Bucs spent the better part of camp flirting with Favre. Why? Well, he's Brett Favre. The worst part was that the Bucs carried on with little regard to the effect the Favre talk might have on QB Jeff Garcia. And it did have an effect. At one point, the speculation had Garcia so shaken he referred to himself as a "dead man walking." It's hard to blame him. After all, when the head coach refused to end the speculation because he felt it "wouldn't be fair to Brett Favre," it's not like he had Garcia's best interest in mind. ...more

August 15, 2008

In the '70s, when jazz fusion both swung and rocked, Return to Forever was one of the genre's elite, making complex, challenging music that managed to appeal to a wider audience than typical for jazz. ...more

July 24, 2008

It is fair to say that no one will ever confuse "filmmaker" Paul Little with Frank Capra, perhaps churning out flicks like "It's A Wonderful Urinal," "Mr. Smith Goes Wee-Wee" or "It Happened One Night - And You Don't Want To Know What It Was." ...more

June 10, 2008