Column One
Fear sets up camp on a stretch of the L.A. River
After the killings, the people on the river slept with their knives closer. They leashed guard dogs outside their tents and cardboard lean-...
Egypt's Nile Delta: Fertile land, but not for jobs
The rice has been harvested, the chaff burned. It's time for planting winter wheat, seed sunk deep into new furrow, as white birds with...
Happy feat in strappy heels
Eight hours of practice and an utter lack of common sense have brought me here, poised to descend 19 steep steps to the ballroom floor of...
Theater project holds a mirror up to the recession
Two young actors are rehearsing a pivotal fight scene in a new short play opening tonight at a small theater in Lower Manhattan. They are...
Trying to get ahead in the slow lane
El Churrero -- the Churro Man -- sidesteps tamale carts, squeezes between bumpers and beggars, working 24 lanes of idling vehicles.
Operatic trills rise from Botswana bush
The villages of Botswana are full of music. Gospel music. Choral music. The singsong repetitive music of rote classroom learning.
U.S. warplane fell from the sky and into obscurity
Lin Zhengping was 13 the evening he saw the hills above his home glow. He was too frightened to go up and investigate.
In Korea, a round on the world's most dangerous golf course
You stand atop an elevated tee box on the first and only hole of the world's most dangerous golf course.
More girls in India are refusing to become child brides.
Her fate was all but sealed, the wedding bells ringing in her relatives' heads. Then the bride-to-be, a little girl...
At 84, Art Laboe's an oldie but still a goodie
The disc jockey smiles when he hears Juanita Santos' raspy voice.
An elegy for summertime
The lake is deserted, and the forest is quiet at the far end of Huntington Lodge Road. A breeze combs through the pines and the firs. It...
Southern Africa's elephants: treasured killers
Here's how to pitch this (true) story to Hollywood: Ordinary guy named John, ordinary Sunday, cycling home into a setting sun. Monster roars...
Trying to rebuild after 40 frozen years
This is the land where Larry Gordy was destined to live, until it was made unlivable.
Palestinians who see nonviolence as their weapon
Every Friday, Mohammed Khatib's forces assemble for battle with the Israeli army and gather their weapons: a bullhorn, banners -- and a...
They're really and truly for the birds
On a recent weekday morning, Tom and Jo Heindel strode to the top of a hill at the edge of town and held hands, savoring the panoramic views...
A soldier's injuries cripple body and mind
Peter Sinclair rummaged through the closet and found what he was looking for.
In the Sumatran jungle, lessons on the river to school
They're equatorial Huckleberry Finns, two wild-hearted boys guiding an old wooden fishing boat along a wide and mighty river.
'The Room,' once a bomb, scores a direct hit
The independent film “The Room” didn't exactly make a splash when it opened six years...
A troubled town's grit expectations
Eight hours before game time and Mark Goins takes the field. For 30 autumns, the Trona High School groundskeeper has carefully tended a...
Another Yankee World Series? New York expected no less of itself
If any other city had a team as talented as this year's Yankees, it would consider them a blessing. In New York, it's just a comeback.
Young Afghan struggles to adapt after Guantanamo
At family gatherings, the young Afghan with the scraggly beard instinctively sits with the children, before others remind him that he is a...
Rep. Pete Stark: ambition vs. a big mouth
Pete Stark is sitting in a gilded meeting room in the House of Representatives. It is home to the powerful Ways and Means Committee that the...
Egypt camel trade runs into the sand
The sun is high and it's a slow day for selling and there's not much for a camel trader to do except scatter hay and greens and listen to...
South Carolina embarrassed by politicians behaving badly
It's tough these days being from South Carolina. Ask Dick Harpootlian.
A dogged pursuit of bedbugs
Sara pulled on her leash, sniffing up one side of a cluttered bedroom and snuffling down the other. The black Labrador retriever suddenly...
National anthem singers are in a league of their own
O say can you se say can you see . . . a rock god plucking away at "The Star-Spangled Banner" on electric guitar? Or,...
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