In some remote corners of East China's Luxi Plain and Southwest China's Hengduan Mountains, there are schools where teachers and students are embracing poetry deeper. There, with a pen and a sheet of ...

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Few modern poets are as readily quotable - and indeed as widely quoted - as Mary Oliver, the late Pulitzer winner whose ...

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He gravitated toward the work of artists he knew personally, like Alexander Calder and Robert Indiana, in amassing an unusual ...

I was a few months shy of my seventh birthday the first time I saw looting up close. We were living in Nairobi, Kenya, in an ...

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When the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool turned green with algae just days after a US$15 million renovation, the U.S. government scrambled for chemicals and expensive technical solutions to fix the ...

For decades, Bernie Sanders has argued that concentrated wealth threatened American democracy. Now he’s betting that ...

The world’s life-forms reproduce sexually in a bewildering variety of ways, even though scientists still aren’t sure why they bother.