Current Events | Current Events
Jul.31.2011
The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most beautiful and most photographed structures in the world. It's also the most deadly. More than 1,500 people have died jumping off the bridge, making it far and away the top suicide site on earth. It's also the only international landmark without a suicide...
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Apr.05.2009
The evening news is rife with reports of corporate excess. Public outrage is of little consequence, however, since incompetence and greed might be considered moral failings, but not criminal offenses. Shelly Martin is beginning to suspect otherwise.
It is not that she's becoming paranoid, but...
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Oct.10.2008
Called a "comics expert" by the San Jose Mercury News, Oliver Chin creates a compelling blend of fact and fiction where a high school class (based in the San Francisco Bay area) grapples with the aftershocks of the catastrophe of 9/11.
But their 11th-grade US history teacher...
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Jul.17.2008
Why are the Elgin Marbles in London, and not on the Acropolis? Why do there seem to be as many mummies in France as there are in Egypt? Why are so many Etruscan masterworks in America? For the past two centuries, the West has been plundering the treasures of the ancient world to fill its great...
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