“The story of race at the end of the 20th century and into the 21st century is a story of conflicting viewpoints.” —Advisory Board to the President’s Initiative on Race In a 1995 Washington Post opinion poll, par...

luxuriant forest, generally composed of tall, broad-leaved trees and usually found in wet tropical uplands and lowlands around the Equator. A brief treatment of rainforests follows. For full treatment, see tropical forest. Rainforests us...

act of sexual intercourse with an individual without his or her consent, through force or the threat of force. In many jurisdictions, the crime of rape has been subsumed under that of sexual assault, which also encompasses acts that fall s...

recovery and reprocessing of waste materials for use in new products. The basic phases in recycling are the collection of waste materials, their processing or manufacture into new products, and the purchase of those products, which may the...

Introduction To some Americans, the gap between religious ideals and the actions of Americans and their institutions constitutes a social problem more profound and more pressing than any other. To others, the problem is to keep religion ...

Something to Fight for or a Lost Cause: A look at Reparations for Slavery For over 200 years people of African descent were enslaved by Anglo-Saxons, having to endure painful hardships and not really even having an identity. After the E...

WORK. Once, at the dawn of creation, in the Golden Age, when earth and sky were conjoined (or when there was only sky), when only children, or the first human pair, inhabited the world, there was no "work." Only God, or the g...

The term "rogue nation" was first adopted by the U.S. government in the 1990s under President Bill Clinton to describe nations that were considered to pose a threat to the United States. The term was controversial from the start, as many ...

country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. Once the preeminent republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.; commonly known as the Soviet Union), Russia became an independent country af...