"I feel as though I were beginning my second reign," announced Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi five weeks ago when he flew back to Teheran and to the throne of Iran. "I am older and more experienced, and [now] I know what I must do."Two weeks ago, when the young Shah went out to Mehrabad airport to greet his Queen, returning from Rome, his step was firm, his shoulders back. He had given up sleeping pills, taken up tennis again and was working hard. He was ...

TITLE: A MURDER IN WARTIME AUTHOR: JEFF STEIN PUBLISHER: ST. MARTIN'S PRESS; 414 PAGES; $22.95 THE BOTTOM LINE: This is the best military morality tale since The Caine Mutiny. CAPTAIN ROBERT MARASCO, WHO pulled the trigger, said the bullet that killed Thai Khac Chuyen made the sound of a "tire puncture" and splattered "blood, skull and bits of brain" on him and the other two Green Berets in the boat. Undaunted, the trio rolled the body of the alleged North ...

On the moon-like surface of the muddy crust that now covers a dozen Indonesian villages, any sign of life is welcome. "Right over there you can see some algae," says an excited Soffian Hadi, deputy head of operations for BPLS, the agency that monitors a still-seething volcanic crater."When the eruptions stop so will the subsidence but we don't know when that will be for sure." Five years after a mud volcano burst to life on May 29, ...

Four days before Christmas in 1994, John David Edington, 22, the adopted son of a Presbyterian minister named Howard Edington, was driving home through an Orlando, Fla., downpour when he lost control of his car and ran into a tree. He died instantly. The tragedy was mourned deeply in lofty reaches of the evangelical world because the Rev. Edington is an extremely respected minister and at the time was the personal pastor to Bill Bright, founder of the megaministry Campus Crusade ...

The financial crises and recession of recent years left no part of the global economy unscathed, and that includes the rarified legal field, which has seen revenues drop 10% at U.S. firms since 2008. Yet perhaps no industry has been as slow to adapt to the international and technological challenges of this new austere era. And that reluctance to keep pace with the changing times seems especially evident at law schools, where "legal education hasn't really changed ...

In 2001, a burly anchorage longshoreman named Scott Heyworth turned up in the nearby town of Wasilla for a meeting with its mayor, Sarah Palin. Heyworth, a local Democratic activist, had grown tired of waiting for the Big Three oil companies to tap their huge natural-gas reserves in the state's North Slope, the long swatch of northern Alaska tundra that includes the largest oil and gas fields in North America. For decades, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and British Petroleum had little incentive ...

NFL analogies get tossed around all the time in the education world. And they get fumbled too. The most recent example: In December Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, was talking about giving teachers feedback about their performance when she said, "Football teams do this all the time. They look at the tape after every game. Sometimes they do it during the game." Not exactly. It's against NFL rules to use video during a ...

A fellow at New York City's Weill Cornell Medical Center, Dr. Sam Parnia is one of the world's leading experts on the scientific study of death. Last week Parnia and his colleagues at the Human Consciousness Project announced their first major undertaking: a 3-year exploration of the biology behind "out-of-body" experiences. The study, known as AWARE , involves the collaboration of 25 major medical centers through Europe, Canada and the U.S. and will examine some 1,500 survivors of cardiac arrest. TIME spoke with ...

I was born in 1957 and spent my childhood in China's remote Xinjiang region, where my father, Ai Qing, had been exiled. He was a poet, not a revolutionary, but the Communist Party had no tolerance for free thinkers. So he spent years cleaning toilets, enduring beatings and public humiliation. To me, it was a lesson in how horribly humans can treat one another. On Oct. 1, the Party will mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic. ...

The science-fiction thriller Source Code starts in a state of glorious disorientation. Jake Gyllenhaal wakes up on a train. His comely seatmate Christina is chattering away, thanking him for some advice he's supposedly given her on a previous commute into Chicago. She's a complete stranger, and she's calling him Sean, but he's Captain Colter Stevens, a U.S. helicopter pilot who flies missions in Afghanistan, thank you very much. Eight minutes later the train blows up. Talk about a lousy morning. Whereupon Colter's thoroughly ...