At 3:15 on a recent Friday afternoon, a 1959 green Oldsmobile was parked alongside the curb in a middle-class residential neighborhood of New York City.
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High Manxiety
You would not think that TV would be a sphere of life where men feel endangered.
Is India’s E-Waste Problem Spiraling Out of Control?
The high-pitched, nasal call of the neighborhood scrap collector is a familiar weekend sound in most Indian neighborhoods.
People to Watch in International Business
MAUREEN O’CONNELL Consulting Queen Fresh out of high school, O’Connell, 42, developed her finance talents at a New York City company that sold plants. Her career has since sprouted: she’s had CFO stints at Bertelsmann’s BMG Direct, Publishers Clearing House and Barnes & Noble.
Why the U.S. Census Misreads Hispanic and Arab Americans
Hispanic advocates often tell the story of a Census Bureau worker who visits a Puerto Rican household in New York City’s East Harlem neighborhood.
AFGHANISTAN: Coup and Recoup?
Indignantly denying that during his exile at Rome he has become a Roman Catholic, ex-King Amanullah of Afghanistan landed last week at Jidda on the Red Sea, the port for Mecca.
How One Nazi War Criminal’s Case Could Bring Others to Justice
Ending a trial that had dragged on for almost 18 months, a court in the south German city of Munich on Thursday convicted 91-year-old John Demjanjuk of being an accessory to the murder of 28,060 Jews at the Sobibor concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland and sentenced him to five years in prison. The presiding judge, Ralph Alt, said the court found that Demjanjuk served as a Nazi guard at the camp in 1943 and, as such, played a crucial role in the “Nazi machinery.” The court sentenced Demjanjuk to five years in prison, and then set him free, saying he would not have to stay in jail pending his appeal — a decision that provoked a furious response from the families of Holocaust victims.
Is Time Running Out to Find Soldiers’ Remains in Vietnam?
Grief hangs over the frail face of Bui Thi Me, a communist intellectual contemplating the deaths of three of her sons.
A Throwback Exercise: Hula Hooping Becomes the Hot New Workout
To get in shape for her October wedding, Dawn-Samantha Cahill, 25, a production coordinator in New York City, tried every exercise routine she could think of. But the upended positions that yoga required made her feel self-conscious
Striking At the Source
Word leaked out almost as soon as the giant U.S.