Time Travel

I have serious doubts that this is real but I sure wish it was.

The Drying Of The Euphrates

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/world/middleeast/14euphrates.html?ref=multimedia

"The Drug War in Six Acts" by Ben Wallace-Wells

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/07/drug-war-six-acts


An in insightful and descriptive piece for Mother Jones looks into how U.S. drug enforcement
inadvertently worsened the problem. Violent means of enforcement only lead to more violent means of production and transport. Read this article of the chance arises.

Some Sketches By Paul Madonna

http://www.paulmadonna.com/index.htm

Why Thornton Wilder Loved Arizona

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/Presence-of-Mind-The-Great-Escape.html

He wrote "Our Town." He wrote "The Merchant of Yonkers." He wrote "The Skin of Our Teeth" and "The Bridge of San Luis Rey." He was an accomplished playwright and novelist with two Pulitzers packed away somewhere. Born in April of 1897 in Madison, Wisconsin, Thornton Wilder was one of six children born to Amos and Isabella Wilder. Thornton moved to China with his family due to the diplomatic work of their father but returned to California in 1912.
Wilder has been a fascinating writer with an even more fascinating life. Many stories about him have circulated through public for years, some questioning his sexuality(most likely), his use of Gertrude Stein's de-constructivist style(sometimes), his time in the armed forces during both world wars( Coast Guard and Air Force), as well as his hiatus to Arizona to work on his final novel, "The Eighth Day." The following was taken out from a piece by Tom Miller for Smithsonian Magazine:

Shortly after noon on May 20, 1962, Wilder backed his five-year-old blue Thunderbird convertible out of the driveway of his Connecticut home and lighted out for the Great Southwest. After ten days on the road and almost 2,500 miles, the Thunderbird broke down on U.S. Highway 80, just east of Douglas, Arizona, a town of some 12,000 on the Mexican border about 120 miles southeast of Tucson. Douglas lay on the edge of the Chihuahuan Desert, and summer temperatures there routinely exceeded 100 degrees, broken only by occasional thunderstorms.

Wilder checked into the Hotel Gadsden, where rooms cost from $5 to $12 a night. Named for the United States diplomat who, in 1853, negotiated with Mexico for the land Douglas sits on, the Gadsden has an ornate, high ceiling with a stained-glass skylight. Its staircase is of Italian marble. Its restaurant offered a fried cornmeal breakfast with butter and syrup for 55 cents and a lunch of calves' brains, green chili and scrambled eggs with mashed potatoes for $1.25.

The Phelps Dodge copper smelter just west of town dominated the landscape—and the local economy. Established at the beginning of the 20th century by mining executive James Douglas, the town was laid out in a grid with streets wide enough for a 20-mule team to make a U-turn. It mixed an Anglo upper and merchant class with a strong, union-oriented Mexican-American working class; schools were loosely segregated.

A Supposedly Harmless Ingerdient In Herbicide Is Now Proven To Be Dangerous

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=weed-whacking-herbicide-p

According to an article in Scientific American, "Roundup," a ubiquitous weed-killer may be much more harmful than previously thought. While the active ingredient, Glyphosate in Round Up has undergone rigorous inspections for safety, the additional ingredients which have mainly been used as preservatives and amplifiers, went largely unchecked. The ingredient polyethoxylated tallowamine, or POEA was found in doses concentrated enough to cause serious harm to several types of animal cells.