Few plants are as useless, ugly and loathsome as the creeping puncture weed that straggles haphazardly across most of the western U.S. The puncture weed’s burrlike seeds can flatten bicycle ...

Norfolk has been my precious planet home for eight decades - plus a few thought-provoking months since our general election, ...

Every child of the 1980s can recall their first encounter with Freddy Krueger. Me, I was seven years old, on a visit to a ...

Smithsonian correspondent Ariel Sabar is also the author of My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the ...

Two are in love and one is full of hate. A bushwhacked bounty hunter, Cole, straggles into Sudden, New Mexico and falls from his horse into the dusty middle of the street. He was on the trail of the ...

Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is still expected to lead for the next four to five years, while the compressed natural gas (CNG) network straggles behind in Europe and North America. The overall ...

In our world of electronic and digital communications, one wonders what evidence of our day-to-day lives will exist for our descendants in the next century. Modern technology has given us the ...

The tenor-saxophone luminary is heard between 1996 and 1999 with Art Farmer, Curtis Fuller, Mulgrew Miller, Monty Alexander ...

Martin's Press $29.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-312-06480-8 Winding through 14 states from Maine's northern tip to the Florida Keys, U.S. 1 ambles across woods, zips by beaches and straggles down the ...