with contributions from Cathleen Falsani, David Ian Miller, Matthew Davies
" 'I CAN'T EVEN LOOK AT THAT,
it's too awful,' my editor said, turning her head away from a bank of television monitors and covering her eyes with her hands earlier this week when coverage of a car chase in Houston gave way to photos of Jill Carroll, our 28-year-old colleague from The Christian Science Monitor who was kidnapped January 7 in Iraq.
AMONG THE SUCCESSFUL
"reality" shows that have been brought back to American network television this year, not many have the breadth of appeal of the wildly popular Dancing with the Stars.
In the spring of 2003, my husband and I vacationed in South America, in a place we'd been before and had thoroughly enjoyed, both culturally and environmentally.
One day early in my teaching career, I was showing the pupils in an eighth grade science class how hydrogen gas is produced in a transparent gallon glass jug, as a result of a chemical reaction between hydrochloric acid and zinc.
During the first week following the worst flash flood ever in Rapid City's history, I spent days bailing mud and water out of my house and my neighbor's.