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Adding Up the iPhone
Apple’s long-awaited white iPhone 4, which hit stores April 28, is expected to be another smash for Steve Jobs.
Where Victory Lies
Of all the revelations, this is the conversation I remember from a September day almost 10 years ago. I was driving home from school with my daughters; they were 4 and almost 7, and the news a few days after the attacks was relentlessly grim: body counts and a smoking, toxic ruin and cars unclaimed at suburban train stations because Mom or Dad never came home from work that day
Cropduster Manual Discovered
New York — U.S. law enforcement officials have found a manual on the operation of cropdusting equipment while searching suspected terrorist hideouts, government sources tell TIME magazine in an issue out on Monday, Sept
American defector Charles Jenkins
In 1965, U.S. Army Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins deserted his post in South Korea and fled to the communist Northa move he now calls “the stupidest thing I have ever done.” He spent nearly four decades inside the Hermit Kingdom, as a lingering mystery of the cold war.
Appreciation: Seve Ballesteros, Spain’s Fallible and Fabulous Golf Hero
Sportsmen and sportswomen are skilled entertainers, and there’s nothing wrong with that; they bring us joy, and by their derring-do fashion a time machine that takes us back to times when we were younger and more innocent and lived for play, not work. But every so often a sports personality comes along who does more than entertain, and the Spanish golfer Seve Ballesteros, who has died, aged just 54, after a long battle with cancer, was one of them
Essay: The Brain: Time Travel in the Brain
What are you doing when you aren’t doing anything at all?
Toxic Environment
They’re in the toys children play with, on the foods they eat and in the air they breathe. Each year, about 27 trillion lb
How Can We Trust Them?
The resort town of Abbottabad is a familiar one to day-tripping Pakistanis seeking escape from the urban tumult of the Punjab plain. Just 75 miles from the capital, Islamabad, colonial-era bungalows abut modern whitewashed villas on small streets largely devoid of traffic.
The 25th Hour
The day Osama bin Laden died, his name was paired once again with the agent whose illustrious career he helped make possible.