A Life of Smoke and Mystery
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A lawyer for terrorists sets out to charm a documentaryâs audience in âTerrorâs Advocate.â
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Munch ice-cream nachos, watch Adult Swim and listen to Rush, all while sparing your lungs. Resident experimentalist Michael Calore explores the wonders of the vaporizer's smokeless high.
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Margaret Tatum has smoked cigarettes for nearly a half-century, but at 71, she said, &quot;I desperately want to stop.&quot;. &quot;It&#39;s hard because it&#39;s been so long,&quot; said Tatum, a licensed practical nurse from Cleveland.
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A mysterious case of CJD raises the possibility of a new group of people falling prey to the illness.
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A reporter once asked Yasser Arafat: ``Sir, you have survived many close brushes with death. What&#39;s your secret?&#39;&#39; The Palestinian leader answered there was no secret, except for his uncanny instinct for sensing imminent danger.
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By Erik Robinson, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Sep. 11--Dennis Buttolph glanced at ever-darkening smoke rising from the slope and grabbed a hose.
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In a wise new novel, life happens, haphazardly
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A remarkable tale of survival and loss in the World Trade Center comes under scrutiny.
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"Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking" (The Penguin Press, 257 pages, $23.95), by Aoibheann Sweeney: No one thinks they're weird when they're a little kid. It takes the taunts of schoolmates or older siblings before a youngster gets self-conscious about the things that make them different.
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Three grains of pollen might help solve a 27-year-old murder mystery.
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When two bodies were found in a rig at a truck stop on the well-traveled route to Houston, some drivers figured it was an accident &#151; maybe carbon monoxide poisoning. When another body was discovered there weeks later, they called it a mystery.
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A spectator with an especially intimate view of human evolution is beginning to tell its story and has so far divulged two quite unexpected findings.
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Ross McElwee's latest family portrait, the documentary "Bright Leaves," looks at the legacy of a tobacco-growing ancestor.
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The notorious show from London uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.
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In the wake of a Charleston, S.C., blaze that claimed nine lives, a community struggles to make sense of its loss.
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After two years of forensic tests on remains held in Seville, Spain, that were thought to be the explorer's, the mystery endures.
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For more than three months, police Detective John Botte roamed the ruins of the World Trade Center, snapping photographs with his Leica Rangefinder camera and capturing hundreds of images of people at work on the monumental cleanup. His pictures soon appeared in a trio of books, most notably the best-selling autobiography of the city's police commissioner.