The Noble Garden
Prisoners garden. Spies garden. Gardening is good for every soul. But a desire to garden doesn’t a gardener make. A story of slaughtering plants.
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7 September 2010: Afternoon
France strikes over retirement-age bump; South Africa quits striking over pay adjustment. Netanyahu's ministers complain he's keeping them in the dark, giving them nothing to leak. Op: Contemporary war is a battle between the impersonal and personal--robots vs. suicide terrorists. Data-mining software works
What You Gave Me
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week, we partner with the Association for the Betterment of Sex to help three readers with their love quandaries.
3 September 2010: Weekend
Peace experts urge Abbas, Netanyahu, and Obama to have a Plan B. Austrian conservative party launches game targeting minarets and Muslims. Despite technology, printed propaganda remains Army's best communication tactic. United Nations now says 240 women, girls, and babies may have been raped in DR Congo town. Commodity
2 September 2010: Morning
Op: No one is sure what the war's end means; few are willing to wager a guess. In Somalia's civil war, pirate gangs aid both the government and the insurgents--and become a political force. Researchers investigate the use of diabetes drug metformin for prevention of
The Hot Jam of Forever
Each summer, certain songs are unofficially recognized as those that fill dance floors, roll down windows, and in general get this party started. Our staff and readers recall the best music from their best summers.
2 September 2010: Afternoon
National Geographic pictures of Pakistan's floodwaters. Op: Pakistan's problem isn't too much water. It's too little water--and one day it could cause a war. In a Missouri prison, inmates find relief through quilting for charity. Twenty-five percent of wrongful convictions
American Peril
An ode to drunk shopping in New York City, regretted investments, and the transformative powers of faux-snakeskin leggings.
Late Summer Hodgepodge
Apparently there’s been keening by a number of white women writers that the New York Times disproportionately touts white males—in this case, Jonathan Franzen and his new opus Freedom received some attention (disproportionate to the relevance of their complaints) here and there. Personally, I might have taken the
1 September 2010: Morning
In the past seven years, life for Iraqis has gone from oppressed--but unambiguous--to chaotic and now, apprehensive. As some mosques invite F.B.I. agents to prayer services, Muslim leaders wonder if protection could be mistaken for surveillance. It's September, the numbers are in, and it