Mrs. Humphry Ward, born Mary Augusta Arnold, won worldwide recognition with the publication of Robert Elsmere (1888), which dramatized for countless readers the loss of faith in orthodox Christianity that resulted from the development of evolutionary sci...
VIRGINIA REMAINS at odds with her East Coast neighbors over an unlikely issue: horseshoe crabs. Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey have been leading a charge to reduce harvesting of these creatures, whose eggs are an important source of food for migratory birds. Virginia, whose...
AMERICAN GRAIN and soybean reserves will fall to perilously low levels over the coming year. That is the meaning of the crop estimates just published by the Agriculture Department. Grain production will be down nearly a third from last year. Unfortunately, the United States...
An anti-spam organization filed a federal lawsuit Thursday targeting so-called spam harvesters, who facilitate the mass distribution of junk e-mail by trolling the Internet and collecting millions of e-mail addresses.The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria by a Utah company called Unspam...
Two tractors move slowly through a field with mechanical contraptions hanging off one side that rake blueberries from low-lying bushes.Walter Degreenia drives one of the tractors. His wife, Gail, stands on a back platform sorting through the berries as they are carried on a conveyor...
