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April 2005

"We are whores for power and oil, with hate and fear in our hearts."
- Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)


Shifting Sands

April 2005

Shifting Sands

by Don Gillmor
Canada has plenty of oil, while China and the US are thirsty and desperate
Photographs by Eamon Mac Mahon


Marathon Man

Sporting Life

Marathon Man

At age 74, Ed Whitlock is one of the fastest men on earth

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‘Til Decree Do Us Part

Religion

‘Til Decree Do Us Part

The Catholic Church holds traditional marriage sacred, but it’s handing out annulments by the thousands


Danger Signs

Nature

Danger Signs

Was the sea trying to warn them a killer wave was on the way?


The Real Easy

Field Notes

The Real Easy

NEW ORLEANS—The city of New Orleans’ official tourism website has some stern advice for would-be visitors to its most famous


Wireless

Fiction

Wireless

Jane salutes you from an age where to be an aficionado is to find yourself foolishly situated in the world. Where to


Cities in a Raw Young Century

Books

Cities in a Raw Young Century

Bombay, Tehran, and Prague, in all their madness and excess, refuse to conform to Western notions of the modern city


Medical Mystery

Field Notes

Medical Mystery

Nairobi—Jane Kamene, one of the nurses, took me into a back room and hauled out a large black book with red


Superior Fox

Detail

Superior Fox

I have been using animals in my photographs since 1979. It started with a photograph that included two dogs that


Another Hypnotic Prairie Night

Field Notes

Another Hypnotic Prairie Night

WAKAW—It has been a dull, dark winter in the small palindrome-town of Wakaw where I’ve recently put down roots. My partner Grant and I


Al Rashad

Dispatches

Al Rashad

Inside Baghdad’s largest psychiatric hospital, during an insane war


POETSMARTâ„¢

Imaginings

POETSMARTâ„¢

Just like people, poets can develop unhealthy, adverse, and sometimes dangerous habits. Poets are cute but, let’s


The Lion in Winter

Music

The Lion in Winter

Zimbabwe’s greatest living musician in a minor key


Peace and Order vs. Glorious and Free

Sightings

Peace and Order vs. Glorious and Free

As we moved from T-shirts to down parkas and back to T-shirts again during this winter of climate change—one day


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