Outside magazine, March 1995 Big Weather: Tornadoes Greenness, hail, air pressure flattening your skull. Hide the children, save the banjo. By Jane Smiley By the time I was 25 and living in Iowa City, my fear of tornadoes was a significant fact of my inner life.

Short, fast strides may not be doing you as much good as you think. Prime your aerobic system better with longer strides.

Outside magazine, May 1999 Epitaph for a Crusader Terry Freitas lived for a cause, a place, a people, but he died for no good reason at all. When Terence Freitas returned to the United States on March 10 from his fifth trip to the remote cloud forests…

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There's nothing so sweet on Isla Pargo as the sugar cane Walker's discovered.

Quiksilver has announced the 28 big wave surfers invited to the 25th Anniversary celebration of The Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau. The event will be held on one day between December 1, 2009 and February 28, 2010, when the waves exceed 20 feet. Aikau was the first lifeguard at…

What's the best exercise equimpent for a dorm room that will help me lose weight? Foldable treadmill? Mary Helen Spooner West Sussex, England

The government’s latest biotech weapon is a stealthy, sweater-eating spy

A boot that performs nearly as well in-bounds as it does out-of-bounds.

A pair of recovering carnivores, faced with too many recipe options, put five plant-based cookbooks to the test