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Ramadan Revelry: Holy Fasting Days & Wild Mall Nights
Philadelphia Independent, Late Winter 2004
An account of an interesting excursion in Bahrain.

What It's Like to Be a Millionaire
Details magazine, April 2003
If you don't grow up with money and then are suddenly worth millions, how does it change your life?

Who Needs a Diploma?
The New York Times Magazine, Sunday, March 5, 2000
Why the high-tech industry wants dropouts. How good jobs are going to kids without even a high school diploma.

Mightier than the sword
Financial Times, weekend magazine, First Person column, July 31, 2004
A family (and national) tragedy inspires a project to connect Brooklyn high school students with their counterparts in Baghdad.

Land of Our Father
Financial Times, weekend magazine, The Business, April 14, 2001 (2,733 words)
The Holy Land Experience has brought the best bits of the Bible to Disney World.

Interview: Oman's shock jock
The Times (London), January 15, 2004
A profile of an outspoken female radio personality in the Arab world who also happens to be a member of Oman's royal family.

A World Safe For Starbucks
The Philadelphia Independent, front page, Spring 2003
Observations from an international aid conference on the eve of war.

Drama unfolds of a little empire
Financial Times, weekend section, January 20/21, 2001
An interview with the President of Montmartre.

Crackpot authorities
Salon, August 17, 1999
From Wilhelm Reich to Julian Jaynes to H.W. Fowler, I sing of the brilliant, the ambitious and the just a bit mad.

The art of Don E. Knuth
Salon, September 16, 1999
Computing's philosopher king argues for elegance in programming – and a Pulitzer Prize for the best written.

The science of invention
Salon, June 29, 2000
Can a theory cooked up by a Soviet labor camp survivor solve today's thorniest engineering problems – and make the world a better place?