It is, in essence, a thought experiment: Consider the Holy Family as a Jewish family of a particular but, in some ways, rather typical sort, and see what happens -- even if the resulting story turns out to have a radically different ending from the one related in the Gospels. There is some precedent for posting fiction on the Post -- Deepak Chopra, for one, has done it -- and the present work is one that bears on many issues now hotly debated in these pages. It is, in essence, a thought...

Historians believe that the Old English sheepdog was developed by English farmers in the early 18th century to herd sheep and cattle to city markets from rural farms. Higham recalls that she fell in love with the large silver-blue and white drovers as a child watching the family sitcom "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" about 40 years ago. The OES, nicknamed "the bobtail," since its tail is docked or "bobbed," is known for its characteristic rolling gait, which resembles the shuffle of a...

He's one of those who think that in the next five years we will have reached peak oil - the point at which half the world's oil reserves have been used up. No good, running the UK's cars on hydrogen would need 67 Sizewell B nuclear power stations or a wind farm bigger than the south-west region of England. They had come to turn themselves into a Transition Town - one of a rapidly growing network of places that have decided not to wait for government action, but to prepare for life after...

AT Conference Hosts Al Gore for a Blitz of Radio Interview Conference Calls "An Inconvenient Truth" AT Conference hosts former Vice President Al Gore for a blitz of radio interview conference calls about his role in feature film documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth. AT Conference Hosts Al Gore for a Blitz of Radio Interview Conference Calls "An Inconvenient Truth" AT Conference hosts former Vice President Al Gore for a blitz of radio interview conference calls about his role in feature film...

On his site, he bills his mission: Protecting the innocent, defending the truth, and recovering the sullied reputations of beautiful damsels in distress since 1996. Ed Lake - blue button-down shirt, gray hair, hangdog jowls - studies the evidence alone in the musty dining room of his tiny apartment in Racine, Wisconsin, a small town southeast of Milwaukee. As we head out into the crowds, Trillian, a 37-year-old Hollander with a crooked nose, nicotine-stained teeth, and brainiac eyes,...