A Mighty, Mighty Pen
David Levine has gone to his glory. The career-spanning monograph will be incredible.
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23 December 2009: Holiday
Help St. Jude Hospital ensure children receive the cancer treatment they need, regardless of a family's ability to pay. C.A.R.E. needs your help raising $2.5 million to invest in women and girls. Fight breast cancer by turning your holidays "passionately pink." Cancer
2009 Holiday Survival Guide for Slackers
It’s that time of year again—actually, it’s way past that time of year. And again, you still haven’t done your holiday shopping.
Keeping Hope Alive
Looking at it now, the New Deal may have been America’s finest moment.
The Shower Scene That Changed the World
Where would America be without “Psycho?”
23 December 2009: Morning
Retailers struggling to recover from last weekend's commerce-interrupting storms, though optimism remains. Tinsel sales this year are up 40 percent. Bookmobiles fall victim to recession. U.N. wants Camara and other Guinean leaders to stand trial for the recent stadium massacre. Yuletide reading: People everywhere are still
Naked Lunch Redux
William Burroughs’s seminal classic, “Naked Lunch,” is published in a 50th anniversary edition.
22 December 2009: Morning
Indiana's Muscatatuck Urban Training Center mimics an Afghan village to train civilians for a surge. Korean army develops pedal-powered airplane. Massive Philippine volcano ready to blow, 45,000 evacuated. These students tended to be overachiever types motivated primarily by salary rather than some lifelong ambition. The reason
22 December 2009: Afternoon
The E.U. declares Copenhagen a "disaster," "a great failure." Eighty Europeans killed by cold snap. Chart: Global misery index. Airlines to face tough penalties if planes sit on the tarmac and passengers go unfed. Plants possess sophisticated defense mechanisms to fight attackers; they don'
Police and Thieves
Having biked with the protesters, drank with the locals, and trained in a battalion to fight riot police, Mike Deri Smith sums up the clusterfail that was Copenhagen.