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When we think of "poetry" and "suffering," most of us probably conjure up thoughts of the starving artist living in an unheated garret apartment. But over the years, many poets have suffered much worse things than voluntary poverty and artistic obscurity. These poets were imprisoned, tortured, and in some cases killed as a direct result of their poetry.
Here in the
Chilean poet Pablo Neruda is the latest famous figure to be exhumed in order to test a hypothesis. Neruda died 40 years ago, officially from prostate cancer. But many people have long asserted that his actual cause of death was poisoning, due to his outspoken stance against the junta.
It’s 3 a.m. and every nerve in my body wants to stay in bed but quickly the intellect clears enough to remind me that the world’s largest fish market is springing to life just a few blocks away and I’ve been invited to witness the structured chaos within its gates.
Caves are, by their very nature, some of the most mysterious and beautiful places beneath the surface of the planet Earth. One such cave system, one uniquely interesting, is the
It sounds shocking, but it's true: In America, we have one of the least safe food supply chains in the world. The food that is being sold to us is making us sick at far greater rates than any other industrialized nation. We don't even realize it, but our food is contaminated like crazy.
