I fell in love with George Dyson about the time he was writing “Baidarka, the Kakak.”  I never read it, because it was so expensive, so I leafed through it in bookstores, but I DID read Kenneth Brower’s  “The Starship and the Canoe,” a “compare and contrast” between George and his father, Freeman, who was designing a space ship at the same time that George...

A Great Falls murder case has ended in a mistrial. Two men and a woman were drinking, there was a quarrel, one man left and then returned, intending to re-enter the home, the occupant shot him through the door. As if this weren’t ambiguous enough, the law had been recently changed. Previously a person who used violence against an intruder on their property had to show...