The 2015 Rooster crows on March 9, which means it’s time to download this year’s brackets to make your picks for which books will live, which ones will die, and which ones will live, then die, then get zombified in the 2015 Tournament of Books, presented by Field
* Aggressive form of HIV discovered in Cuba; the strain progresses into AIDS three times faster. * Stronger marijuana may pose higher risk of psychotic disorders. * Rome officials panic as ISIS makes its way into Libya, just across the Mediterranean from Italy. * Young Chinese, attracted by Jon Stewart's transparency message,
Call it Kreider’s Law: You can’t be grateful to be alive your entire life. Especially when there's an arms race going on inside your head.
A visit to the New York studio/living room of a family’s style director who has a week’s worth of laundry ahead of her.
* West Virginia declares state of emergency after a train crashes, leaking Bakken crude oil into the Kanawha River. * Boston's contract prohibits non-union workers; it's instead paying prisoner pennies to shovel record snowfall. * Citing State Dept. guidelines, UMass is not accepting Iranian students for programs in
* Everything ISIS does is calibrated to bring apocalyptic prophecy to fruition; that prophecy says Jordan has to be next. * In long-secular Turkey, parents confront a new reality: Islamic education. * The recent, odd history of USB dead drops—in Iran, they've been used for weed purchasing tips. * Silk
* Chelsea Manning to be first Army veteran provided transgender therapy. * Including the financial world. * FBI director discusses unconscious racial biases, believing America hasn't tackled race after Ferguson. * New York City goes a record 10 days without a murder, and criminologists can't say why exactly. * Forecasters warn
* Leaders of Ukraine and Russia agree to tentative truce to begin this weekend. * See also: Ukraine borders porous enough to allow 30 billion cigarettes to sneak through. * If Obama gets the nod to fight the Islamic State, it'll be a ringing endorsement of unlimited presidential war making. * "
Better to have loved and lost—and best to have written an essay about it. Surviving the Russian melodrama of young love.
Love of food can be love’s most sincere form—especially when avocados are involved—but also bittersweet if paired with departure.
