We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.

Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.

Branding experts believe that just because they have rethought a company's image or name, the rest of us will automatically fall in line.

It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein's rule.

To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it.

I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards.

Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.