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Pope Francis’ fascination with the devil took on remarkable new twists Tuesday, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped “liberate” a Mexican man possessed by four different demons despite the Vatican’s insistence that no such papal exorcism took place. The case concerns a 43-year-old ...
Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Guitarist Dustin Wong hesitates for a split second. It’s a pause that would go unnoticed during most other sets, but Wong has spent the last 40 minutes seemingly in a trance while playing guitar and looping the notes via an array of pedals in ...
Tim Duncan saves the day as the Spurs hold off the Grizzlies in overtime
“State of the World 2003,” this year’s edition of a report published annually by the Worldwatch Institute, arrived in my mailbox several days before the shuttle tragedy, but it sat on my desk unopened until the morning of Columbia’s fiery descent. That morning, drawn ...
What a difference a decade makes. In the early 1990s, Japanese environmentalists feared that golf courses were going to carpet the country, wipe out its forests, pollute its rivers and poison its wildlife. Today, golf talk is more about buyouts and bankruptcies than biodiversity. ...
If you think that your computer, being such a modern, hi-tech device, is — or surely must be — environmentally friendly, then think again. Researchers at the United Nations University in Tokyo recently analyzed the material and energy inputs required to produce a 32-megabyte ...
Perhaps more than any other individual today, Junko Edahiro is striving to share Japan’s environmental successes with the world. Her new prominence comes after working for many years behind the scenes as an interpreter, translator and journalist striving to bridge the language gap that ...
Yet another year is tugging impatiently at the sleeve of closure and within days will be history. In environmentalist terms, 2002 may be best remembered for summer’s U.N. Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg, South Africa — though to many observers that Second ...
Ten years ago, at the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Severn Cullis-Suzuki got the chance to make the speech of her life. On the last day of that event, officially titled the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development, Severn was suddenly told ...
Making a global transition from fossil fuels to clean hydrogen-energy systems seems like pure science fiction — until you meet Amory Lovins. Not only can Lovins outline the specifics of a practical hydrogen future, he also has a proven track record of transforming fiction ...
First of two parts Part professor, part engineer and part philosopher, Amory Lovins is perfectly suited for the role of alternative-energy guru. A Lovins presentation is a seamless tapestry of economics, physics and mechanical engineering, sprinkled with corny one-liners, startling insights and revealing quotes ...
While studying and researching in England several years ago, Eno Nakamura was surprised to find that Japanese and English children had strikingly different views of the future. That contrast convinced her of a critical need for Japanese schools to put more emphasis on “the ...
Danielle Nierenberg may work in the shadow of the White House, but she is clearly more enlightened than the man who lives there. At the end of April, the Washington-based Worldwatch Institute released a policy brief written by Nierenberg, a staff researcher. The title ...
Despite the international set-to over Iraq and caustic reviews for the recent U.N. Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, there is still some good news on cooperation and the environment. According to a report released this month by the U.N. Environment Program and the ...
The deluge of posters, pamphlets and platitudes that roared out of Johannesburg during the 2002 Earth Summit has ended, though to no one’s surprise this summit’s conclusions were much the same as those of the first Earth Summit in Rio a decade ago. Sure, ...