Francis Parkman

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.

Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.

The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions.

Democrats were quick to point out that President Bush's budget creates a 1 trillion dollar deficit. The White House quickly responded with 'Hey, look over there, it's Saddam Hussein.'

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.