"A good private-eye novel . . . is not really about violence; it's about the fallibility of people, about the grotesqueries of modern life, and not least it is about one man, the detective, who defines the moral order." This statement, from Washington Po...

White water has many uses in papermaking processes. Its most important function is to dilute and control the pulp consistency. An even consistency equates to a stable basis weight. Butterfly Effect: The propensity of a system to be sensitive to initial conditions. Such...

After sixteen years as an overnight camp director, I, like the mayor of a small town, manage power outages, as well as homesickness. However, with all my experience, I was not prepared for the challenge of the summer of 2000. My mother...

The volunteers tote a butterfly net, binoculars and field guides around the Miami Metrozoo grounds, scanning the plants and flowers for fluttering wings. But they aren't searching for a rare species or collecting specimens for display _ they're counting butterflies for the Florida Butterfly Monitoring...