Trapped Chilean miners say they're all OK; engineers say it will take four months to free them. When cities sell off airports and zoos to the private sector, they may fill budget gaps but could create future holes. Architects ask citizens to appreciate Germany's ugly buildings.
Bathing is an ordinary routine for most of us, but Manjari Sharma’s shower is more than a place for a daily lather and rinse. It’s a confessional, a temple, and, for believers, an incarnation of the river Ganges.
People want to move to Singapore and New Zealand, get out of Liberia and El Salvador. Currently thriving, Lance Armstrong's foundation and its supporters face the unknown as a federal investigation looms. After two years of negotiations, Israel allows surfboards to enter Gaza. Right-wing Israeli groups conduct
There will always be those songs that remind you of summer, that get into your brain and stick there—with your approval or without it—for years. Occasionally for lifetimes. Or perhaps it’s a new entry, a summer jam just arrived this season in the unmistakable guise of Lady
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week, a reader wonders about TMN’s vision of the future of publishing.
Pakistan's floods herald a potential regional catastrophe; coffers are empty, rampant violence continues. Burma's first girl group imports western influences; junta demands song about electricity failures be changed. Parents in Johannesburg renting children to beggars for $3/day. We have a system of tax brackets well
What this year's candidates learned from the stimulus: be vague about job numbers. Even the worst apartment kitchen can be improved by buying some decent knives. 35 good lessons. Updated for those on house arrest: How to cook the Riker's Island carrot cake at home. Don&
Faced with a deadline to choose her major, our writer hunts down interview subjects to learn where their studies got them, no matter her mother's loathing of the liberal arts.
Obama declares victory, sort of, depending on how you look at it, in Iraq. Anyone who is going to Afghanistan is not some tourist who is going hiking. Afghan airline magazine tells the ugly truth. Discussion of Filipino basketball from introduction by the military to use as a political strategy.
Perhaps future anthropologists, stirring the entrails of our American civilization, will find it remarkable that in the third millennium of the Christian era, Time magazine placed novelist Jonathan Franzen on its cover. What I find remarkable is that anyone thinks the dying gasps of an endangered media species are news
