Pole trek needs last explorer

"Descendants of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his team are looking for a final budding explorer to complete their ancestors' journey to the South Pole. Legend has it Sir Ernest recruited his expedition members with an advert promising "small wages", "constant danger" and a...

Sept. 11 Version of 'Space Invaders' Draws Fire at Video-Game Convention

Is this "art" or is it just tasteless, tacky, and insulting? There's bound to be an uproar over this use of 9/11 as "installation art."Was that uproar the purpose? This might have been just a way of getting attention."Attendees at the Leipzig Games Convention in eastern...

After Iraq- a glimpse of a possible MidEast future

"A report from the new Middle East—and a glimpse of its possible future by Jeffrey Goldberg, Atlantic Monthly, Jan-Feb 2008Not long ago, in a decrepit prison in Iraqi Kurdistan, a senior interrogator with the Kurdish intelligence service decided, for my entertainment and...

Why can't you pay attention anymore?

"Unlike attention deficit disorder, or ADD, people aren't born with ADT. It's the result, he contends, of the modern workplace, where the constant and relentless chatter coming from our computers, phones and other high-tech devices is diluting our mental powers."

Would Defeat in Iraq Be So Bad?

"After Vietnam, the dominoes did not fall. What that tells us about this war. To me, the relentless mud slide of insurgency and civil war in Iraq is leading to unacceptable strategic disaster for the U.S. There appear to be no viable paths to follow in order to avoid it....