Bock reconstructs the story of customs inspectors in Port Angeles, Wash., a small remote city on the Olympic Peninsula. The officials detained-then chased and caught-Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian who'd tried to enter the U.S. from Canada with the makings of a bomb. 

Last summer Ohio mourned its fallen marines. In a single week, 16 from Brook Park's 3/25 were killed, 48 by the tour's end. While we filled our prayers with their names and the streets for their funerals, the rest of 3/25 kept fighting.

This piece mixes humor and gravity in telling the story of a man who narrowly escaped from the Marriott World Trade Center, a hotel that collapsed when the Twin Towers came down on 9/11. Its humor, we think, works only because the main character, Frank Razzano, himself finds humor in his tale. In fact we found the tone refreshing. And because Razzano views his escape also with a kind of reverence, the narrative is, in the end, moving.

Coverage of the war in Iraq, now in its fifth year, always runs the risk of reader fatigue. Daily headlines swim in the wake of militaries and militias. But with "Anguish in the Ruins of Mutanabi Street," Sudarsan Raghavan manages to connect the reader to lives in the midst of the maelstrom by focusing on a place relatively free of sectarianism, large enough to encompass Sunni literature and Shiite posters. He lets us see a piece of Iraq's possible future laid waste.

Finkel shows his knack, once again, for crafting newspaper stories with a writerly, particularly human point of view. He doesn't just write technically compelling scenes; he lets his readers in on irony, wryness, attitude

An anti-profile, Jeffrey Fleishman's "Viewing Life from the Roof," is a series of snapshots from the life of Alia Qotb, who lives on an anonymous rooftop in Cairo. In  language that floats between poetry and prose, Fleishman recounts vignettes from a woman nearing 70, born in the basement of the building she now lives on top of-in a hut without running water or a toilet.

In "Ramadi Nights," author Neil Shea offers up nocturnal desert patrols, pre-dawn home raids, and the dislocated daydreams of servicemen he meets while embedded in the Iraqi province of Al Anb

He wanted to smell fresh dirt. That was one of Kepple's goals when the Iowa National Guard's 1133rd Transportation Company returned to Mason City two weeks ago. Some soldiers talked about heading to Las Vegas. Others requested a hot steak and a cold beer. A few, married quickly before they left, looked forward to a honeymoon. Kepple wanted to plant another crop.

A narrative multimedia story about one of the last U.S. Troops to serve a 15 month tour in Iraq

recently introduced Costa's Levels of Questioning to my students. We have some teachers at my school talking about these triggers of metacognition, so it compliments everyone's efforts to enter this discussion in the classroom. In a nutshell, Costa's questions are a more staccato version of Bloom's Taxonomy, making it more accessible to more students

NewsTrust has created a set of teacher guides that will help you teach your students the difference between good and bad journalism. These guides include interactive lesson plans for college and high school classes in journalism, civics, social studies, communications and more

In 1999, the National Park Service announced its intention to move the painting and tear down the building - which sits in the middle of the battle line where Union troops defended Cemetery Ridge - to restore the landscape to its 1863 appearance. The decision touched off a battle between Civil War purists and modern-architecture preservationists that may have reached its conclusion this week in federal court in Washington.

State Sen. Eric Adams will announce Sunday the posting of six giant billboards in Brooklyn targeting the saggy pants trend.

The New York Board of Education's purges came to be widely condemned as the city's own witch hunt, repudiated decades later by subsequent administrations that reinstated dozens of dismissed teachers.

In an effort is under way to open up the investigative files on more than 370 New York City schoolteachers who were ousted in the 1950s because of suspected Commmunist ties.

Amnesty International is calling on Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah to stop the execution of a Lebanese man sentenced to death for "sorcery."The international rights group condemned the verdict and demanded the immediate release of Ali Hussain Sibat, former host of a popular call-in show in which he would predict the future and give out advice to his audience.

Technophobia is the fear or dislike of advanced technology. The term is generally used in the sense of an irrational fear, but others contend fears are justified. Many of these works portray the darker side of technology as seen by the technophobic. As technologies become increasingly complex and difficult to understand, people are more likely to harbor anxieties relating to their use of modern technologies.

An NY Times analysis of the original movie just prior to the 2008 version coming out.

Short story that The Day the Earth Stood Still is based on.