What would you pay to have lunch with the richest man in the world? For me and Mohnish Pabrai — a friend who, like me, runs a U.S.-based investment fund — the answer is $650,100.
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Geldof and Bush: Diary From the Road
I gave the President my book.
Armed Forces: Cider Joe at Sea
The twin-engine DC-3 lifted from the runway just after 5 p.m. and headed out over the Pacific for Hawaii
Pottermore: Is New J.K. Rowling Website Good for Readers?
The big reveal has been revealed: Pottermore is … an interactive thingy.
Can Climate Shift the Biology of Ecosystems?
Scientists have made lots of projections over the past few years about how warming temperatures and a changing climate will affect the planet.
Bidding Adieu to France
Re “Why they leave France” [April 16]: There is a typically French disease that prompts citizens to overcriticize the country. Those judgments are, most of the time, merciless and exaggerated
The Unending Feud: Shi’ites vs. Sunnis
There is no god but God, and Muhammad is the Messenger of God.” That confession of faith, the shahada, is professed by all Muslims, be they the 700 million Sunnis who dominate the Islamic world from Morocco to Indonesia or the 90 million Shi’ites who rule Iran and form majorities in Lebanon, Bahrain and Iraq. To the shahada, however, the Shi’ites add, “And Ali is the Friend of God.” Those additional words in praise of Ali, whom the Shi’ites passionately claim is Muhammad’s true successor, epitomize the complex and often bloody feud between Islam’s two branches.
In Defense of Myhrvold: Give ‘Modernist Cuisine’ a Break
It’s only natural, I suppose, for a $625 five-volume, epochal publishing event like Nathan Myhrvold’s Modernist Cuisine to polarize the food world. After all, this is the book the whole culinary world has been waiting for: “the cookbook to end all cookbooks,” as David Chang called it.
Smoking Will Kill 1 Billion People
One billion people will die from tobacco-related causes by the end of the century if current consumption trends continue, according to a global report released Thursday by the World Health Organization . At a press conference held in midtown Manhattan, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose charitable organization, Bloomberg Philanthropies, contributed $2 million to conduct the study, joined top WHO officials to present the findings
Habitable Zone for Exoplanets Bigger than Believed
Planet hunting is by far the hottest area of astronomy these days, and just about everyone who’s in on the search is looking for the same thing: a distant world where life could exist, at least in theory.