A harrowing view from the top: global warming

I've submitted a couple of articles - Tibetans carry on as glaciers fall victim to global warming and Heatwave on the top of the world - regarding the evidence of global warming, climate change - whatever your semantic preference - in the high mountains of the world. And,...

Philippine jail system a living hell

In a new book published about the harrowing jail system in the Philippines, Raymund Narag painted his a bleak picture of a prison system more in tune with the 19th century than the modern age. The author laid out in graphic detail the subhuman existence inmates were forced to...

Rescuer pins fallen teenager, as subway passes over them

Those ditches are very shallow indeed, fullof stagnant water, rubbish and dead critters. That Wesley Autrey guy is a stud."NEW YORK (AP) -- Wesley Autrey faced a harrowing choice, as he tried to rescue a teenager who had fallen off a platform onto a subway track in front of...

The Dust Bowl's Inconvenient Truths:Seattle's Egan Wins National Book Award

"eattle author Timothy Egan has won the National Book Award for nonfiction for his harrowing account of America's Dust Bowl catastrophe, "The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl.""The Worst Hard Time is an expertly rendered...