Sunrise TARA K. SHEPERSKY YOU WOULDN’T know how to get down here without someone to point out the path. You wouldn’t know there was a public beach at all. From the road, signs ...

The Dissection I REMEMBER THE DAY THE FROGS ARRIVED. Each in a separate jar, floating in clear liquid. I remember the sour, pungent smell of formaldehyde, the cold clank of metal t ...

1. About the time a pregnancy test registers as positive, a fertilized human ovum is the same size as a poppy seed. 2. I sing and celebrate the poppy. Our daughter was born by an e ...

THIRTEEN HUNDRED MILES off the northern coast of New Zealand, where Antarctic waters disappear into the Tasman and Coral Seas, the research vessel Falkor works its way across a sub ...

I’M RIDING in Richard Yada’s big white truck, heading southeast from Little Rock on the interstate. We’ve already gone through the town of Pine Bluff and past the neighboring ...

IN PLANTS it’s not called aging, it’s called senescence, which sounds so much more elegant, serene even, than what happens to humans as time wrinkles us, like it’s drying us ...

It IS A SWELTERING AFTERNOON in Curtorim, South Goa, and Santano Rodrigues is arguing with his friends over when to eat lunch. He’s spent all morning supervising machinery and in ...