Two days later, we only now finished reading this: How a real decider operates. Guardian leads charge with climate-change op-ed published in 56 newspapers; no top U.S. paper joins in. Op: Regarding Copenhagen, politicians ignore physics, planets don't. More than 20 percent of U.S.
He's like a lifeguard, or a doorman, always present, never obtrusive. Fascinating profile of Ryan Seacrest. Archaeologists digging through Shakespeare's trash hope to find out more about his life. Tiger Woods's snafu has meant big sales for small physics book. Virgin readies to unveil
Einstein meets Hippocrates: Profile of a system so smart it can (almost) model human drug trials without humans. News you can use: Analysis of how to assess a Tiger's damage to a tree. More efficient aviation might result if passenger jets flew in bird-like convoys. Bird feeders
Brian Ulrich’s photographs of closed-down malls and big-box retail stores reveal the potential ghost towns lying inside successful shopping complexes all across America.
Simon Mawer’s Booker-shortlisted novel The Glass Room could easily be banal. It is not.
A readable history of that essential primer, “The Elements of Style.”
At least 37 killed in suicide attack at a mosque near Pakistan army headquarters. Op: If we lose in Afghanistan, it will be because "our" Afghans--Karzai & co.--failed to deliver. North Korea quietly does away with currency. There's a very strong intellectual case for
First came “A People’s History of the United States.” Now Zinn is making history again.
Somalia's worst terrorist attack since June kills 19, including three ministers. "Tall, fashionable, slim" French legislator wants airbrushed advertisements to be labeled as retouched. Walt Whitman now selling Levi's. I'm surprised that people seem so surprised that scientists are human beings, stuffed
Troops increases to Afghanistan may look like a defeat for Biden, but it plays to his modest goals for the nation. Signaling a trend, Gordon Brown is again late with his regrets, this time to families of soldiers who've died in Afghanistan. Because Dow Chemical refuses responsibility, the
