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 …
Read MoreA 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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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
Read MoreAmateurs Like Us
Those incredible men and women and their sort of doable, not-too-daunting feats
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