The complete online text of "Us" by Mary Louisa Molesworth.

As a writer of short fiction for adults, Louisa Molesworth is little known, her accomplishments in this genre greatly overshadowed by her fame as a writer for children. Of the 101 books she published, only a handful are for adults: several novels and col...

As it took over the presidency of the United Nations Security Council, the United States declared January the month of Africa. The Council prepared to hear about the problems of Burundi from a large gathering of African presidents. It's not the first time that...

WHAT DO YOU GET when you cross guttural screaming vocals fused with melodically mesmerizing riffs, blended with assaults, arrests, and addiction to drugs? An exploding hybrid that defies definition yet is readily scarfed up by metal and scream-o aficionados. Straight out of Utah,...

The U.S. military is increasing its use of drones in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some of the systems include:_ Global Hawk: The military's prime eye-in-the-sky provides high-altitude, high-resolution intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in near real-time. Once programmed, it can taxi, take off, fly, capture images and...