ITEM: At a dinner party in New York’s Westchester County, the dessert includes grapes.
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Eric Kim: Global marketing chief of Samsung
Just a few years ago, Samsung was the brand you bought if you couldn’t afford Sony or Toshiba. Suddenly it’s the name that consumers all over the world–especially young ones–seek out for the most fun and stylish models of everything from cell phones to flat-panel plasma TVs.
Students: The Free-Sex Movement
As they do at countless collegiate parties everywhere, the couples wriggled to the watusi and gyrated to the jerk, while recorded drums and saxophones resounded in the dimly lit apartment of a University of California student in Berkeley. Unlike parties most anywhere, however, the boys and girls were naked.
Teleportation Is Real – But Don’t Try It at Home
Physics and magic aren’t often mistaken, but increasingly, physicists themselves seem to be trying to change that.
Putting the Green Into Clean
Back when he was establishing his career in investment banking, Roger Barnett made all the right moves: degrees from Harvard and Yale; jobs in London, Paris and New York City; and regular appearances in the society pages along with his wife Sloan. Today Barnett, 43, has a job at a direct-selling company in a nondescript office park about an hour inland from San Francisco
The Breast Cancer Gene: a Woman’s Dilemma
Cancer stalks the women in Anna Fisher’s family. Her grandmother died of “female cancer” — probably ovarian — in the 1940s
The Nation: Death in San Quentin
IN his book Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson, the author repeatedly prophesied that he would not leave the California prison system alive. Last week the grim prediction came true.
Can Jerry Brown Solve California’s Perpetual Crisis?
Like his predecessor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Governor Jerry Brown is struggling to keep the state afloat in an ocean of red ink. Facing a $26 billion deficit, he warns of “draconian” cuts to education and public safety if the state cannot raise revenue and has to adopt an all-cuts budget.
The Rise of Teenage Gambling
Amid the throngs of gamblers in Atlantic City, Debra Kim Cohen stood out.
Barry Bonds Trial: Why the Government Should Get Over It
This weekend, college basketball will whittle its postseason tournament down to the Final Four.