This is it. For the final time in his long career, Dale Jarrett will strap in a NASCAR stock car and take the green flag. The 1999 Cup champion last competed in a points-paying race at Bristol in March, but this Saturday’s NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race will be Jarrett’s final race.
“When I got out at [...]
After having packed several T-shirts, warm sweaters, an extra pair of jeans, firm leather boots in case of heavy rain, my favorite khaki hitchhiking outfit, video and photo camera, and an indispensable map of automobile roads, I was finally ready for the trip to a Carpathian village called Delatyn, where I was going to celebrate [...]
The conversation occurred because I was trying to find the name of a long-gone drive-in movie theater in Culpeper County so I could put it on a historical map. Someone finally referred me to Joe Quaintance, who had built the theater.
As Quaintance and I talked, I realized that this man could be considered the 1950s [...]
Dr Albert Hofmann, who died last week, was the inventor of LSD. But he was not merely a chemist. He was a revolutionary.
Hofmann changed the way a whole generation looked at the world. This is the sort of statement that is customarily made about thinkers and scientists of the stature of, say, Marx or Einstein. [...]
Try this once in your life: Stand on a boat as it moves slowly down the narrow waterway of a foreign country. The world passes by, close and observable, and you watch it with a sense of elevated station. The clarity, the buoyancy, the cushiness make you feel privileged in a way even the sportiest [...]
DENVER - Jerry York is fond of calling his team a meat-and-potatoes squad.”There’s no trickery with our club,” the Boston College coach said. “We’re not trying to reinvent the wheel at B.C. We just stay with the game plan.”As in, get the puck to Nathan Gerbe and let him work his magic.Gerbe’s hat trick helped [...]
LOS ANGELES - Facing a backlash from supporters, Barack Obama’s presidential campaign reversed course Thursday and reinstated hundreds of people to lists that will be used to choose California’s delegates to the Democratic National Convention.Campaign manager David Plouffe said in a letter to potential delegates that all names would be restored to ballots that will [...]
His picture hangs in the Sherpa museum, above the terraced village of Namche Bazaar, and almost everyone in the Solu-Khumbu valley knows who he is. He is stopped often, sometimes by people just wanting to shake his hand. A Western climber we meet on the trail stops to hug him. She tells us confidently, You [...]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday expressed hope that Russia would increase its annual contributions to the global body and threw his weight behind Moscow’s ambitions to host a Middle East peace conference.
Ban expressed hope that Russia would increase its UN contributions in line with its growing economic might, while appearing with Foreign Minister [...]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday expressed hope that Russia would increase its annual contributions to the global body and threw his weight behind Moscow’s ambitions to host a Middle East peace conference.
Ban expressed hope that Russia would increase its UN contributions in line with its growing economic might, while appearing with Foreign Minister [...]
