"THE United States is a damned country that deserves only to be cursed. It declares its own occupation of our lands legitimate, but brands our resistance as terrorists.” This was not the Li
AMERICA's churches are nothing if not nimble. You might think that they would be up in arms about The Da Vinci Code”. Dan Brown's novel has sold well over 40m copies in 44 languages; the film ve
THE ivory-billed woodpecker is not large, as birds go: It is about the size of a crow, but flashier, its claim to fame is that, though it had been thought extinct since 1944, a lone kayaker spotted it
IN 2001 human-rights activists in China crowed that a little-known search engine called Google was the most important tool ever created to skirt state censors. Users could retrieve content that Beijin
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Two exhibitions show how a pair of 18th-century painters, James Barry and Henry Fuseli, inspired the modern visual romance with the gothic .两个画展展示的是，两位18世纪画家—&mdash
FOR America's colleges, January is a month of reckoning. Most applications for the next academic year beginning in the autumn have to be made by the end of December, so a university's popularity is pu
A primary draw at CUNY is a programme for particularly clever students, launched in 2001. Some 1,100 of the 60,000 students at CUNY's five top schools receive a rare thing in the costly world of Ameri
modern travel writers excite more hostility and awe than Sir Wilfred Thesiger, who died in 2003. Despising the drab uniformity of the modern world”, Sir Wilfred slogged across Africa and Asia, e
ANOTHER round has just been fought in the battle between tobacco companies and those who regard them as spawn of the devil. In a paper just published in the Lancet, with the provocative title Secret s