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Director Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer, which didn’t even crack the top ten movies last weekend, is being called the best sci-fi film of the year, and possibly the best film of the year …

Another day, another story of wacky, arbitrary cruelty out of North Korea. The prison nation’s tiny supply of Choco Pies, a South Korean version of the moon pie, has been …

See more Living in… posts by Bruce Haring. The eyes of the world are focused on Brazil for the 2014 FIFA World Cup of soccer. It’s a televised panoply of white sandy …

Most of us don’t think about fish unless it’s on our plate, swimming in sauce with a hint of lemon. But that may soon be a luxury you can’t afford, …

SAVILE — A BAD BILL MURRAY: You’ve probably seen the photos and heard the stories about the harmless fun generated by actor Bill Murray. The existential Murray makes a habit of generally …

When Barclays plc became the latest big bank to get caught trying to manipulate the London Gold Fix, the benchmark price for gold traders around the world, it was a wake …

It’s a unique paradox that 70% of the Earth’s surface is water, yet only about 1% of it is suitable for human use. Everything we need water for, whether it’s …

See more Living in… posts by Bruce Haring. Let’s imagine living in a country with free health care and education. A place where everyone has a job and there are no homeless …

CUTTING THE CARBS: The Environmental Protection Agency has set a goal of cutting carbon dioxide emissions by “up to” 30% by 2030. The “up to” is based on 2005 emission …

For hundreds of years, education worked well at the local schoolhouse. Children learned reading, writing, and arithmetic, and other subjects, under the watchful guidance of teachers from the community. Sure, there …