Second-half woes have Missouri riding into sunset
I can?t tell you specifically what goes on in the locker room at halftime of a Missouri football game. I?m not ruling out beer pong, but like I said, I don?t know.
I can tell you that the postgame locker room scenes in Columbia have grown increasingly
Children face poison peril in war on flu
Hand sanitizer exposure among kids is often from hand to mouth.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- It's become a common tool in a parent's arsenal against swine flu and the common cold -- a bottle of hand sanitizer.
But as an increasing number of parents
Give swine flu prevention the college try
Classroom door handles. Vending machine buttons. Computer lab keyboards. On a college campus, scores of students and staff leave their germs on communal surfaces every day. That's why colleges around Florida and the country are taking extreme measures
Busan
I should have posted this entry as soon as I got back from Busan so I wouldn't forget the details but as we all know I'm a bit of a procrastinator. This will again be a 2 part blog, this one about Busan, the next about Seolleung tombs. Stay tuned?
A drinking life
Before she wrote her first memoir, Mary Karr was already a poet. If every word matters to a prose writer, to a poet the words matter that much more. Take ?Lit,?? Karr?s dazzling new memoir, which picks up her story just after a harrowing small-town
She had everything -- but a life
Tucked away down a winding track on a remote Welsh peninsula, the farmhouse we rented for a family holiday last June was a much-needed haven from real life. My two-year-old son and his cousins ran wild on the empty beaches all day, chasing crabs
Irishman Enda Walsh doesn't let words get in the way
Reporting from New York -
For a writer, Enda Walsh has surprisingly little faith in words.
The 42-year old Irish dramatist's plays "The Walworth Farce" and "The New Electric Ballroom" have earned rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. But he
4,625 miles later
Mike Carter crosses the Thames after his 4,600-mile journey round Britain. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/ Antonio Olmos
Every good escapist tale needs a magical portal. Mr Benn had a shop's changing room, Lucy Professor Kirke's wardrobe and Harry Potter a
