For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of WWII

Siberian summers do not last long. The snows linger into May, and the cold weather returns again during September, freezing the taiga into a still life awesome in its desolation: endless miles of…
PUBLISHED: May 14, 2013
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6927 words)

Is psychic Sally Morgan deluded but essentially harmless?

Sally Morgan often gives health advice during her readings. Photograph: Ken McKay/Rex Features It has been a difficult, but financially very rewarding 12 months for Sally Morgan, otherwise known as…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 16, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1754 words)

Africa’s Dirty Wars

Warfare in Independent Africa by William Reno Cambridge University Press, 271 pp., $27.99 (paper)
PUBLISHED: March 8, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (520 words)
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