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The filmmaker does not consider herself a feminist, saying that women and men have their own distinct God-given talents.
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France has no right to ban the burqa, says the filmmaker. "If they want to wear a burqa, if they feel safe and beautiful that way, who is France to […]
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The absolute repression that women dealt with under the Taliban was all the more painful because Afghan women had previously enjoyed so much freedom. The filmmaker recalls pictures of her […]
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The filmmaker recalls some of the most terrifying moments during the shooting of her film—including a near-kidnapping and finding a severed hand in the back of a car.
(Note: Look for updates on Merapi and Kliuchevskoi later today) I caught an article over the weekend about the potential of recent volcanism on Venus. The study that appeared Geophysical Research Letters found […]
"For both F.D.R. and Obama, national economic disaster was electoral good fortune. But Obama’s luck ran out almost as soon as the votes had been counted."
Is our universe simply a hologram? Particle astrophysicist Craig Hogan is building the most precise clock of all time to directly measure whether our reality is an illusion.
"Writer Hunter S. Thompson, the king of gonzo journalism, was not a skier, so why did he choose to live in Aspen?" The Guardian searches for the ski-resort counterculture.
"What makes some people so much more alluring than others? The Independent discovers that good looks and sexiness are determined before we're even born."
"There is a tension between stories and statistics, and one under-appreciated contrast between them is simply the mindset with which we approach them."
As car ownership rates drop in urban areas, B.M.W. has a foreword thinking business idea. The company will rent its cars by the hour to customers in Munich, Germany.
"Will the average earnings of women begin before long to exceed that of men after being so far behind in the past?" Nobel Laureate Gary Becker on women's propensity for education.
A new Japanese internal combustion engine gets its high fuel economy of 70 m.p.g. from an improved gas engine and a lightweight design rather than hybrid technology.
"As complex families proliferate, the law considers: Can a child have more than two parents?" The Boston Globe reports on the changing legal definition of parenthood.
According to civic engagement, education and intellectual atmosphere, Boston is America's smartest city. The Daily Beast ranks 55 of America's metropolitan areas.
Buzz Bissinger titled his profile of then-Mayor of Philadelphia Ed Rendell’s efforts to save his city from the brink of fiscal disaster, A Prayer for the City. Philadelphia, my native […]
Tony Blair's sister-in-law has converted to Islam after having what she describes as a "holy experience" during a visit to Iran. Journalist and broadcaster Lauren Booth, 43 – Cherie Blair's sister – now […]
Sexual violence against women in the African nation has become an "incredibly inexpensive tool for controlling and eviscerating the population," says Eve Ensler, founder of the advocacy group V-Day.
One of the bad things about having a smart phone is, I can now scroll through the headlines of the New York Times before I get out of bed. This […]
In order to be marketable today and in an increasingly competitive economy, each one of us has to get our creative juices flowing and constantly come up with fresh ideas. […]