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… Nuclear power was touted as the solution to  peak oil and promoted as “energy too cheap … years) in excess of 20,000 picocuries per liter (pCi/L). When  NPPs are decommissioned they become waste. Even as new … The Past–and Future–of Nuclear Energy in the United States …

… dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini to decide the fate of Czechoslovakia. They agreed to Hitler’s demand … “doves” of supporting bankrupt pre-World War II tactics whenever they sought negotiations with an opponent. Before … a face-saving way to get out of Kuwait before his nation was attacked — Saddam agreed to withdraw if the leading …

… Korea’s nuclear weapons program are reviving memories of “the forgotten war,” the war in Korea. But the real key to … things for ourselves, the Koreans or the rest of the world. When the Korean fighting began, most Americans assumed that … defeating our opponents unconditionally, whether their sign was a swastika, a rising sun or a hammer and sickle. …

… The hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, is a central … Bridge, 2009. Even so, last year’s hajj witnessed tragedy when a construction crane collapse in Mecca killed more than … One effect of colonial domination of Muslim-majority lands was that the hajj came under European influence and control …

… death in East Africa. Famine has overwhelmed aid agencies. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) says that more … to flee their communities in search of food, but there was little to find. A letter published by the Russian writer … and bandits. The word desperation is an understatement when it comes to the plight of Somali refugees.   The first …

… The 2020 U.S. elections have resulted in a new … of the country rejected Donald Trump. While this backlash was perhaps concentrated on domestic matters and … but the world it promoted stuck rigidly to U.S. models. When strategically important countries strayed from the …

… motives, high Bush administration officials exposed the name of a CIA agent to columnist Robert Novak. For more … the first time a president has possibly connived at what was essentially an act of treason. Not that there’s been a … into the matter last month. The current affair began when two senior Bush administration officials revealed the …

… In a 1973 football game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Denver Broncos, a pass was intercepted by the Broncos. In frustration, Bengal … our discussions of sport. What are we trying to evoke when we refer to the values and practices of these classical … Savage Gladiators vs. Civilized Amateurs: Rome and Athens in American Sports Culture …

… On March 22, 2017, Nevada became the 36 th state and the first state in 40 years to ratify … in legal limbo. A protestor’s sign at the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. in 2017. Forty-five years after Congress … ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment ( right ). When the ERA is described in terms of equal pay for equal …

… Alice in Wonderland, the little girl created by Oxford mathematician and logician … our ear tells us a different story.   Lewis Carroll was already an ardent photographer when Oscar Rejlander took this portrait of him posing with a …

… society that is at once protective and threatening. Even as the "built environment" has stolen space used traditionally … This recovery of the past play world of American children was probably Chudacoff's greatest challenge, but is this … America, most of it is devoted to the years after 1800, when middle-class Americans gradually acknowledged that a …

… A century ago, on May 25, 1913, Tsar Nicholas II entered the Cathedral of the Assumption in Moscow’s Kremlin, where … English translation, the smutnoe vremia (or simply smuta ) was a period of civil war, famine, and foreign intervention … laid the foundations for three centuries of Romanov rule. When Nicholas celebrated the family’s tercentenary, another …

… While marriage was the ostensible issue in the Supreme Court ruling U.S. v. … they would lose their parental rights. In this era, when “father knew best” and June Cleaver stayed at home, the … The Road to Same-Sex Marriage: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and the American Family …

… Let's stop wringing our hands over the recent rash of fake autobiographies. James Frey and … give us the cliches we want about life on the margins. Only when we end our romance with what we imagine is authentic … touring as a speaker for the Anti-Slavery Society in 1841, was told by abolitionist leader William Garrison not to …

… dream about. He’s rewritten a part of American history. The Hollywood actor recently capped a bizarre speech to … member of the Whig and then Republican parties, Lincoln was a thoroughly committed advocate for the development of … system. But if anything, an actor knows a good line when he hears one — and Beatty must have understood that his …

… When George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira and George Gershwin wrote "Of Thee I Sing" in 1931, they created a vice president named … Throttlebottom, whose relationship with government was so tenuous that he saw the White House for the first … The Vice President: Heir Apparent in American Politics …

… The United States is in its third week of a war with no … wiretaps to a specific phone number is obsolete in an age when people commonly  have multiple telephones and e-mail. … repression only to find later that the targeted population was little or no threat. When John Adams believed the nation …

… political analysts claim that without quick resolution of the current presidential election, Americans will lose all … As members of Virginia's lower House of Assembly, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson themselves "intervened" in … reveals thousands of pages devoted to contested elections. When elections were questioned, common sense, rather than …

… “Divide and Rule” was the motto of British colonialism in India . 1919 saw a classic example of this policy in action when hundreds of unarmed, peaceful civilians in Punjab were … The Amritsar Massacre …

… In the renowned Hong Kong crime thriller Infernal Affairs … to the People’s Republic of China  (PRC). The bill was introduced after Chan Tong-kai murdered his girlfriend, … the Yue peoples, who controlled the region until 111 BCE when the Chinese Han Empire conquered it. From that point …

… Whether or not you are a fan of all things spooky, odds are you … would bring pestilence upon the village The revenant was active after sundown, returning to their grave before … her husband. Weakened by the fall, the man becomes ill. When encouraged to seek his last rites, the man refuses, …

… The supporters of presidential candidate John McCain … McCain. Wisconsin Senator Robert "Fighting Bob" La Follette was 69 when he ran for the presidency in 1924. Like McCain, he …