Now that the Soviet Union has past into history many people are writing books and articles trying to explain what happened. Perhaps some books written before the event are more enlightening then many written after it.

At the national meeting last weekend of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, speaker after speaker condemned the Bush administration for reducing funding for both basic research and science information.

There's nothing left but the autopsy and it doesn't take William Peterson - or even David Caruso - to decipher who killed the National Hockey League.