Chris Colin

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The chimp who thought he was a boy
Raised like a son by a New York City family as part of a language experiment, Nim Chimpsky was shipped away when funds ran out. A new biography tells Nim's story.
Just rewards
Last week Wesley Autrey threw himself in front of a subway to save a man. Does tossing a $10,000 reward and a trip to Disney World at a hero diminish his otherworldly deeds?
Have you heard my rape joke?
A Colorado University sophomore keeps the ACLU in business.
Pelosi's family values
She campaigned as a mother. Will she fight for American families?
New U.N. agency for women
And it's about time!
What else we're reading
Western publishers veil Muslim women, a girl gang rocks Chile, a New York doctor plots the nation's first womb transplant and more.
The other Harold Ford Jr. race card
Forget racist whites -- did the GOP do a number on black Tennessee women?
Feminism and intervention, Part XXXVIII
How to parse another milestone in a very different war?
My so-called famous classmate
An exclusive excerpt from former Salon editor Chris Colin's acclaimed new book on being young in the '90s, "What Really Happened to the Class of '93: Start-ups, Dropouts, and Other Navigations Through an Untidy Decade."
New from Weber ... Girls!
Barbecuing needs feminism like grilled fish needs a bicycle.
Welcome to the occupation
Maple Razsa, an organizer from last year's living wage sit-in at Harvard, talks about his documentary on the event, snooping administrators and Oprah's take on poverty.
False accusations, bad boys and stripping Christians
Readers respond to recent articles on molestation allegations, acceptable sexual behavior and the Christian way to handle exotic dancers.
The ultimate weapon
Pederastic priests, molesting fathers -- charges of sexual abuse are everywhere these days. But a growing movement of aggrieved men claim the accusations have gotten out of hand.
Lost speeches of W.
My fellow Americans: Today I made a J-turn in a Camaro and fired many guns! Evildoers, shudder in fear!
Loving animals to death
Animal hoarders think they're helping their furry friends, but mostly they're just feeding their own twisted psyches.
Was President Bush abducted by aliens?
When Dubya had his close encounter of the pretzel kind, did he in fact take a trip far, far away?
Drew Barrymore's revisionist history
Spielberg's retrofitting of "E.T." opens the door to an untapped revenue stream that promises a product placement bonanza!
Sweet, fruity, yet carbonated
Remember: Stir and mash, stir and mash.
Cooking for fun and staggering profits
The apogee of my culinary career came early, and ended with a dog instead of a swimming pool full of Coke.
The horror: Protesting Soderbergh's blasphemy
"Hey, George: Go back to the E.R. before Frank sends you there! Yo, Brad: Dino could spit you out like an olive pit!"
"Half a Life" by V.S. Naipaul
The Nobel Prize-winner delivers a sharply observed story of the hypocrisies of sex, class and race in England and beyond.
Victory and the "Benevolent Arab"
If we want to beat terrorism, it's time to deploy urban legends.
Is there an anthrax doctor in the house?
Scoops are few and desperation is catching at the annual conference of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
Terror cleansing
Since Sept. 11, pop culture has been purging itself of anything potentially insensitive. But who decides what "sensitive" is?
Drafted into the cult of war
I am not obsessed with the battle; I am the battle.
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