In 1973, 25-year-old Donald Dax Cowart was severely burned when his car erupted in flames. Cowart was inspecting a piece of land in Texas with his father on a summer morning when he realized their car wouldn't start.
Let's recognize that we have it good here in the land of the free. We wear fancy, expensive clothes made in factories by people working for almost nothing a day.
When "The O.C." airs, no one is surprised to see the entire cast gallivant across the screen donned in polos and khakis, ready to board their sailboats or sunbathe by their swimming pools. But when this happens in real life — with real wealth — it seems surreal. On a lovely weekend getaway for the Fourth of July, I spent a few days camping and continued on to a beautiful sailing town for America's birthday — I'll call it Beamerton. As my boyfriend and I perused the art fair and strolled the streets, I couldn't help but notice the air of the people and town.
Reprinted from the June 26, 1981 edition of The State News I'm waiting for my bags down at Detroit Metro on my way back from an exhilarating demo in Washington, I see this intense young woman bearing down on me.
Childhood is usually associated with innocence. When I think about my childhood, I remember catching fireflies and playing endless games of hide-and-seek.
Last week, while the United States was celebrating its Independence Day, North Korea displayed its own fireworks celebration — by test launching seven missiles.
It's about time somebody did something about those al-Qaida cells at The New York Times. Recently Bill Keller, executive editor of the Times, made the decision to run a story divulging information about a formerly secret government program that is meant to track terrorists via surveillance of international banking records. Our leaders reacted to the story as they would any domestic disaster — they gave themselves the weekend to think about it.
There were many signs that a change had to come. My stomach asked me for nourishment with a polite squeak similar to the sound of Nickelodeon Gak.
When you're scrounging up change from couch cushions in order to buy a beer, you know you've finally made it to the "poor college student" status you've always heard about.
The maxim that those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it has a corollary: Those who study history will learn something about the present.
Imagine a near future in which farms grow human limbs. It sounds like a bizarre, unimaginable concept taken right out of a far-out science fiction novel.
It's two parts eyeliner and one part tears. Three dashes of electric guitar and one bass solo. Unlike the manufactured pop of previous years, this new music genre is so emotional. This is emo, and it's more than music.
A child holds a sign. A child wears a shirt. But it's what is written on the sign and shirt that make all the difference.
A terrible thing happened to two soldiers of the 101st Airborne 12 miles south of Baghdad last week. Pfc.
The Republican-led Congress continues to push a central theme of Bush administration economic policy: Help the ultra-rich whenever there's a window of opportunity, but don't throw a bone to the working poor unless it's an absolute political necessity. House GOP leaders are striving to exempt more multimillionaires from the estate tax after failing to win its outright repeal in the Senate.
For five years now, Americans have been trading their freedom and privacy for safety. Since Sept. 11, 2001, President George W.
The concept of spirituality to study quality of life and health is not new, but has returned to the scene during recent years and has gone through an evolutionary process.
The influenza pandemic of 1918-19 killed more people than World War I. Thought to have originated in China, this form of the common flu was particularly virulent.
The United States is in dire need of increasing its funding for alternative fuel sources. Energy is our future, and the future begins with the present.
Not long ago, President Bush got some folks upset when he suggested teaching intelligent design alongside the theory of evolution in our educational institutions.