by admin | Aug 22, 2013 | News
Next Wednesday, August 28th, will mark the fiftieth anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Now regarded as one of the greatest flights of public oratory in American history, the speech, delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on the...
by admin | Aug 15, 2013 | News
One of the great paradoxes of airline security in the age of Al Qaeda is that anyone with access to the Internet can eavesdrop on pilots and air traffic controllers — in real time. In a world where a TSA agent will eagerly strip you of a tiny tube of mosquito...
by admin | Aug 8, 2013 | News
As every sportsman in Pennsylvania knows — and as I only recently discovered — hunting is highly regulated. There are training requirements; bureaucracies to navigate; an encyclopedia of ever-changing rules; and serious penalties for breaking those rules....
by admin | Aug 1, 2013 | News
When I was little, I spent a lot of time daydreaming about outer space. I wasn’t alone in my obsession. These were the years after the Apollo program, the era of Viking and Voyager, when the far reaches of our solar system seemed to be just beyond our grasp. We’d...
by admin | Jul 25, 2013 | News
Last week, as I was perusing the auction listings of the controversial memorabilia amassed by former Harrisburg Mayor Stephen Reed for his doomed National Museum of the Wild West, one item in particular caught my eye: a “Vampire Hunter’s Set.” What’s a “Vampire...
by admin | Jul 18, 2013 | News
On the spur of the moment, we’d dropped by our favorite Korean restaurant, the Spring Garden, a charming mom-and-pop operation in Camp Hill. We always order the same things there: a big scallion pancake; a fiery shredded pork and vegetable dish called jaeyook bokeum;...
