On December 1, 1911, at about eight o'clock in the evening, a thirty-six-year-old man picked up a pen and began to write a story. This man had lived out almost half his life and was, by his own standards, a failure. He had tried many different occupation...

It is probably not surprising that a man nearly forty years of age, with a wife and children to support but no real taste for the pedestrian routines of business, should dream of being carried away to another planet or of being born in the jungle, free o...

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was an American adventure writer whose Tarzan stories created a folk hero known around the world. His novels sold more than 100 million copies in 56 languages, making him one of the most widely read authors of the twentie...

HALEY Macal and Thomas Sorensen's interest in paleobiology goes way back. "Din-o-saur" was the first three-syllable word Haley ever articulated -- at age 1 1/2 -- and Thomas was able to enumerate the anatomic differences between, say, a plateosaurus and a psittacosaurus, long...

Technology is a wondrous thing a thought that comes to mind whenever I approach the Hampton toll plaza on Interstate 95 in New Hampshire. Take cellphones. A mere 20 years ago, they were so clunky you all but needed a sherpa to lug...