The Brain Trainer
How to focus, focus, focus
Read MoreNovember 2004
Ivor Shapiro considers a radical proposal for lowering health care costs; Shawn Blore investigates bloody conflict over a rich deposit of diamonds in the Amazon; John Trotter photographs the curiously indistinguishable Republican and Democratic National Conventions; David Hayes looks back at the controversial history of the CRTC…
Smacking Down the Vote
stamford, connecticut—At July’s Democratic National Convention, among the motley crew of talk-show pundits and political junkies, an unlikely figure could be spotted. A professional wrestler named Chris Nowinski was in …
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Money for Nothing, a Reno For Free
cairo— In Khan al-Khalili bazaar, near the two-hundred-year-old al-Fishawi café where the Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz penned his magnificent sagas of Egyptian life, two tiny girls in ragged party dresses …
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Death Takes a Holiday
beijing — Controlling the use of highly toxic pesticides, Dr. Michael Phillips is saying, is the single most effective measure China could take to improve the mental health of its …
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A Manual’s Labours
The self-help sex book, like its first readers, has crossed middle age. With Viagra, both get a little lift
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Space Invaders
The seduction of small things made large
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Fall Classic
Facts all come with points of view Facts don’t do what I want them to Facts just twist the truth around—Talking Heads, Crosseyed & Painless
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Amateurs Like Us
Those incredible men and women and their sort of doable, not-too-daunting feats
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The Numbers Game
Larger, richer, more powerful than ever: that’s the forecast for the U.S. as its birth rate exceeds that of any other industrialized nation—and nearly doubles that of Canada
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Studies Show…
. . . that maybe you should, um, eat more chocolate ?
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