Adam Skolnick

It’s just after 2 p.m. Filtered sunlight splashes through the teak forest, illuminating a network of stilted bamboo huts that stretches into the surrounding hills. Five neighborhoods are stitched together with pumpkin patches and banana groves, and enlivened by scavenging chickens, mud-soaked pigs, and packs of children dressed in rags. This place is not joyless, [...]

The Fiscal Times - February 2011 The prison system in the U.S. is in crisis mode. States across the country are grappling with massive budget shortfalls, much of which can be credited to the runaway growth of prison budgets over the past 25 years. At $50 billion spent on corrections a year nationwide, it’s the second-largest state expenditure behind [...]

Angola is one of the wealthiest developing nations on the planet, yet 1 out of 6 children there dies before age 5 from foul or nonexistent drinking water. We travel deep into the Angolan slums with the aid workers who are fighting a corrupt oil-baron government to save the future generation of the country – [...]

Spa Magazine – October 2007 On a crisp spring day I drove past the stucco subdivisions, commuter trains, and skate parks of suburban West Auckland and considered the following, seemingly innocuous, question: “Am I okay with deep bodywork?” Atarangi Muru, a world renowned Maori tohunga (traditional healer) from New Zealand, posed it to me three [...]

Oakland Raiders rookie Darren McFadden had a simple goal: to be the fastest and strongest running back in the NFL. So he put on 15 pounds of muscle in 6 weeks. Here’s how…

If you travel to the southern end of the Inner Hebrides archipelago in Scotland, you’ll find a rocky, windswept isle with more than 130 miles of spectacular coastline, huge communities of otters, seals and marine birds, and 3,500 people who love their Scotch whiskey. And they should. After all, their island’s name, Islay, is synonymous with single malt production, and whiskey is the hub of the local economy.