Unless you’re in the oil business, there’s little reason to brave the choking pollution of Baku, Azerbaijan. Fetid water, oil ponds and life-threatening levels of air pollution emitted from drilling and shipping land the former Soviet manufacturing center at the … Continue reading
We have unveiled the American city that has fallen the farthest from grace in each of the seven deadly sins ( lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, wrath, envy and pride). For each sin we stretched our imagination to find a workable … Continue reading
Cambridge – Football, hockey, baseball: noble sports all, but only one contest truly tests the very fabric of the human spirit. That, of course, is the annual bacon-eating contest at Atwood’s Tavern in Inman Square. Ten contestants, against their better … Continue reading
“For too many westerners, the face of Islam is a suicide terrorist. For too many people living in the Middle East, the face of Judaism is a West Bank settler or an Israeli soldier. And for too many people across … Continue reading