We saw a lot of highway in September. It was north to Chicago to move John to Northwestern University, with side trips to Wisconsin and Indi...

Due to strict age requirements (too strict, if you ask me), I have finally accepted the fact that I will never achieve my dream of beco...

Every person in the continental U.S. lives within one mile of an owl. Jonathan Franzen (Time, August 28, 2006)

There are some 45,000 items in the average American supermarket, and more than a quarter of them contain corn. Smithsonian, July, 2006

There are three times as many tanning parlors in the U.S. as there are Starbucks. Dark roast, anyone? Time, August 7, 2006

The Dow Jones Industrial Average first broke 100 in 1906. The last time it closed below 100 was in 1942, over 36 years later. The DJIA first...

Model 2006 cars and light trucks have an average fuel economy of 21 miles per gallon. That compares with an average of 22.1 mpg for 1987-198...

Scott is spending the summer in Japan, participating in NanoJapan , a ten week research program in nanotechnology sponsored by the National...

Salzburg rehearsal Take another look at those photos accompanying the story on the RISD All-Star Band tour of Europe. Look more closely a...

About one in five hundred Iraqis is incarcerated. In the US, the ratio is about one in seventy five. Ilario Patano