[…] to America’s high levels of religiosity. Most of the contributors are sociologists, anthropologists, or historians; some, like Manhattan lawyer James W. Lucas, who wrote the chapter on Mormons, are religious insiders. The book’s territory […]
[…] beak, and chirped tentatively into the gray and somber dawn. By the time we got to Long Beach and picked up Mr. Meyers, the grumbling of early morning traffic had already begun. As we […]
[…] the Comoros the previous month, after stopping first at the neighboring Island of Johanna. It would not de part again until April 18. Its captain, William (a.k.a. Robert) Kidd, did not know he would […]
[…] land, arrange for a working breakfast, and probably schedule a golf game or two. Down on the beach, children were making sand castles or chasing the waves, and dozens of heads bobbed in the […]
[…] that will radiate out of the hyper-charged souls of the victorious. When I awoke, alone on a beach some fifty miles from where I had first gone for a swim, I realized that the […]
[…] never forget the day at the lake when I skidded the jet ski right up to the beach—only to discover that I was not parked next to my family; I was standing in my […]
[…] the lizards that the kids catch after church provoke more comments than the unusual view. When the Manhattan Project began during World War II, Richland was a farm community with a population of about […]
[…] Wife leaves, takes the kid with her, and I’m in the dumps. It’s like when my first beach cruiser got ripped off. Dub and I are fifteen and we got cruisers and we’re cruising. […]
[…] of school for the day if the weather is too beautiful to be anywhere but at the beach, and concedes new white tennis shoes for her parent-teacher conferences where she tries to smile concernedly […]
[…] He codiscovered uranium 233 and isolated the first milligram of plutonium for J. Robert Oppenheimer during the Manhattan Project. He has written definitive works on the effects of exposure to radiation, including Radiation and […]