At the Institute for mummies and iceman

On the young ones' face you can still see the dreams he's having--on the girl too, but different dreams.

Why would anyone buy a book with the title, "Being Mortal"? Being mortal is the last thing I want to be; yet the book is on the bestseller list, or at least it was for a long time.

The mystery is not why doctors feel the need to make appointments but why patients feel the need to keep them.

"Homes," he said. "There are no homes," said General Alu Jameel, an Iraqi counter intelligence officer of the recent carnage in Ramadi.

Imagine standing on the shore of western Turkey with your wife and two kids, trying to flee your native country for a better life in the free world, and being tossed a defective life jacket for a ride across The Aegean in a leaky boat.

There seem to be two types of control in operation--one is surfeit (Roman and Christian, control by Bread & Circus) and one is privation (Mideastern and Islamic, control by Intolerance & Tribalism.)