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Beirut, Lebanon, was once known to tourists as “the Paris of the Middle East.” Then came a 15-year civil war from 1975 to 1990 that,

Ah, passwords. They’re our protectors. Our safety blankets. They’re good and we love them. Sorta. As we all know, nearly everything we do nowadays—from playing

Can the media influence our attitudes and behaviors?  A lot of young people today don’t think so. I spent a great deal of time writing

Lance Armstrong is a cheater. The International Cycling Union says so, his teammates say so and 1,000 pages of documents say so. That makes me

So, I found this eerie video footage of some guy counting the box office receipts for the weekend. I’d show it to you, but it’s

When I travel by plane, I often board with up to a week’s worth of newspapers. Yes, I still enjoy getting my news the old-fashioned

I have seen the inside of Google—the very symbol of technological omnipotence—and it looks like a cross between an Orwellian preschool and the Death Star.

It may not rot your teeth or send you out on secret late-night trips to purchase baggies full of some illegal substance, but porn addiction

Sometimes you just need a hug. And sometimes there’s just no one around to give you one. So what do you do? Well, MIT Media

Five—count ’em, five—national releases trundled out to theaters this week, but none of them could take down Liam Neeson. Then again, if they’d seen Taken