It’s 8:10 a.m. on October 21, and I’m sitting in line at the largest military installation in America. The sun has been up for less than an hour, and innumerable cars stretch out over the horizon. Drivers take the opportunity to exit their cars on this remote strip of road to stretch or perhaps to walk a bit.

The Shoshone Power Plant is worth more dead than alive. The small, early 1900s powerhouse on the Colorado River in western Colorado is on its last legs, crippled by chronic mechanical problems, wildfires, floods and rockslides. But this faltering facility just east of Glenwood Springs holds something of immense value in the parched West: senior rights to an estimated 845,000 acre-feet of Colorado River water a year. Communities on the Western Slope of Colorado’s Rocky Mount...

“Let me just say — not about myself but about a lot of people like me — we all want to live in Russia, and we want to live in Russia openly,” says Tolokonnikova, who has a pair of appearances in Santa Fe the last week of June. “We don’t want to hide, and we don’t want to hide our political views. We also don’t want to live in exile. We love our country; we believe that our future is connected deeply with the future of Russia. But it has to be a different Russia.”“It’s amazing when something you...

I'm wearing a trench coat and a fedora. I'm standing center stage, flanked by talented actors. And despite blowing my only line, I'm being asked to take a bow. This isn't a scene from a wildly improbable dream. It's what happens when a journalist steps outside their comfort zone. The generous people at Florida Studio Theatre offered me the chance of a lifetime; the opportunity to be part of the cast of "Charlotte's Web" despite having no acting experience at all.

Wrote not just these articles, but also the captions and headlines; In many cases, I also took the photos

Cayman’s most precious resource comes from 150 feet below ground and snakes through a modern array of devices to arrive at your home at the flip of a faucet handle. Fresh water, so crucial and so scarce in nature, has always been the lifeblood of a prospering community, and advances in desalination technology have been the hidden engine fueling Cayman’s growth over the last few decades. The local population has tripled since the advent of the Water Authority in 1983, and the demand for fresh wa

You’re standing at the highest point of the Cayman Islands, a bluff that rises from the sea and ends 141 feet above the surface of the water. It’s a peak nearly as tall as New York’s Statue of Liberty from feet to outstretched hand, and you’re supposed to walk off the edge. Backwards. No matter how many times you’re assured it’s safe, you doubt your instructions. You’ve been told that twin ropes secured to your harness can hold up to 5,000 pounds each. You test your weight at the top, leaning b

WEST POINT, N.Y. -- There is the college life, and then there's the Army life. The Army athletic program's recruiting pitch is not what you might imagine, an ego-building exercise in which the incoming freshman is told they can be the team's future. It's just the opposite. West Point cadets are told that they can be part of a glorious tradition that may include intercollegiate sports but extends into life long after graduation. Duty. Honor. Service. Respect. Army cadets are instilled with a co

HAWTHORNE, N.Y. -- People have been there before you, and they've left footprints. Babe Ruth's grave is well-manicured, but with a few inches of snow on the ground, that's not what you notice. The approach to nearly every grave at Gate of Heaven Cemetery is snowed in, blocked by frost and ice. But leading up to this one, the final resting place of baseball's greatest legend, there is a path in the snow. The foot traffic to Ruth's grave is steady and consistent in all seasons, and it has long b