Paul Salopek

In a beat-up refrigerator humming away in his laboratory storeroom, Ken Weiss is storing vials of human blood: the largest gene pool left of a tribe of people inexorably vanishing...

Dolly the sheep is not losing much sleep over woolly issues of self-identity, but in the week since she trotted out onto the world stage as the first mammalian clone,...

This was supposed to be the mail carriers' Alamo. On Monday, hordes of Chicago-area residents, panicked at having only one full business week left before Christmas, were supposed to throw...

In 1963, Aldous Huxley, the eminent British author of the dark, futurist novel "Brave New World" found himself facing a dark twist in his own future: He had suffered a...

Freddy Cavin could barely muster a breath to speak. "You seen him yet?" he gasped. "You seen him yet?" Him was--who else?--Michael Jordan. And it wasn't hero worship that made...