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Crime writer and forensics expert Patricia Cornwell claims that she has found Jack the Ripper—and now she’s bringing him to the Fogg. For the past half-decade, Cornwell has been investigating the true identity of Jack the Ripper, the legendary criminal who gruesomely killed...
Chafee is an Episcopalian aristocrat who inherited the Senate seat once held by his father John Chafee. "Linc is barely a politician," says a Democratic colleague. "He's the only Senator I know who isn't infatuated with the sound of his own voice." Indeed, Chafee the Younger seems a...
(2 of 3) Were Cervantes ever to sail his boat around the Mediterranean's 46,000-km coastline, he would hear similar tales in languages from Arabic to Italian. The 22 countries that border the Med face a battle over resources that raises a stark question: To what extent can...
That message may, at least, have gotten through to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who acknowledged last year that India needed "a more effective strategy for tackling poaching and smuggling." In April 2005 he convened a Tiger Task Force, headed by Sunita Narian, one of India's most-admired environmentalists. The...
A year has passed since the Task Force issued its recommendations, and there's scant evidence of progress. The wildlife-crime bureau is still just a promising idea, and the government agencies in charge of conservation remain as ineffective as ever. Some wildlife experts argue that the Task Force may...