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Meatless Monday: Dealing With Abundant Scarcity

Ellen Kanner | Posted 03.28.2011 | Green


Ellen Kanner

With all the hype about greening your life, one of the most basic things you can do happens to be the most important -- going for a more plant-based diet.

Ethiopia: Broken Contract, Broken Faith, Broken Country

Alemayehu G. Mariam | Posted 03.23.2011 | World


Alemayehu G. Mariam

It isn't clear what Zenawi means in his repeated use of the word "contract" to describe the relationship between the people of Ethiopia and his party.

How to Spread Revolution Without the Internet

Louise Mirrer | Posted 03.23.2011 | World


Louise Mirrer

Two centuries ago, news of revolution -- and revolution itself -- reverberated back and forth across the Atlantic at astonishing speed. The social media of the day? Word-of-mouth information, rumor, and opinion.

What Is the Arab Third Estate?

Uriel Abulof | Posted 03.23.2011 | World


Uriel Abulof

For two long centuries, the Arab Middle East has struggled to meet the challenge of modernity, a task exacerbated by the lingering, and increasing, dissonance between the glorious past and the shameful present.

Scientists identify murdered French king

France24 | Posted 03.23.2011 | Arts


AFP - He was one of France's most adored kings, a monarch known as "le bon roi Henri" (good king Henri), who promoted religious tolerance, was a hit w...

Henri IV, French King, Skull Back With Heirs

AP | JAMEY KEATEN | Posted 03.23.2011 | World


PARIS — A 400-year-old skull that researchers say belonged to celebrated French King Henri IV was donated Thursday to a descendant – the p...

Cooking Art History: The Early American Foodie

Maite Gomez-Rejon | Posted 03.23.2011 | Food


Maite Gomez-Rejon

Though no stranger to French cuisine when he set sail, Thomas Jefferson's years spent in France completely revolutionized his culinary thinking and opened up a new gastronomic world for him.

France's Mass Strikes Are No Tea Party

Eric Margolis | Posted 03.23.2011 | World


Eric Margolis

Walk down any street in the old part of Paris behind the Louvre, and you see large numbers of unwashed, evil-looking ruffians just waiting for an excuse to riot, loot and burn.

The Hero Of The Haitian Revolution

The New York Review of Books | David Brion Davis | Posted 03.23.2011 | Books


David Brion Davis The New York Review of Books Toussaint Louverture: A Biography, by Madison Smartt Bell (Pantheon) The Haitian Revolution of 1791-1...

Meatless Monday: Storm the Bastille with Green Bean Salad (Recipe)

Ellen Kanner | Posted 03.23.2011 | Green


Ellen Kanner

Tomorrow is Bastille Day, celebrating the start of the French Revolution. The French Revolution didn't happen because it seemed like a fun idea with ...

Louis XVI's Final Testament Recovered

Telegraph | Posted 03.23.2011 | World


Louis XVI's final testament written shortly before his execution has been recovered more than two centuries after it disappeared during the French Rev...


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