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"If film criticism really is dying, it's doing so with all the dignity of a bunch of clucking old hens, squawking in despair while the fox gnaws his way through the wire," writes Andrew O'Hehir.
Roughly half of the heat that is believed to have built up on Earth in recent years due to global warming is unaccounted for, and scientists worry that it is gathering deep in the ocean or elsewhere.
Because of the sheer number of games that have been played over time, finding truly unique statistical milestones in baseball is becoming more and more difficult.
Epicurus's program for attaining serenity boils down to "Forget about God, death, pain and acquisition, and your worries are over," writes Joseph Epstein. But would such a detached life be worth living?
Does being in a good marriage make you healthier? Researchers have discovered that people in negative or stressful marriages have lower immune-system response.
Want to terminate your pregnancy? Under a new Nebraska law, you'll have to prove you're not crazy first. Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman signed two new laws restricting abortions on Tuesday. […]
The new information age certainly isn’t without its fair share of clutter. The United Nations has even spotlighted the growing need to combat e-waste building up in a number of […]
In a recent issue of British tabloid Grazia, the now celebrated (and still anonymous) “Oxbridge Sex Blogger” has a chance to explain her motives. She claims she’s simply attempting to […]
IT became known in the end as the ‘Rotten Parliament’. Mired in scandal, exposed as money grubbers and expenses abusers, there will be few tears shed in Britain for many […]
When we think of the Internet of Things, we tend to think of our microwave talking to our mobile phone or our car chatting with our home air conditioning system. […]
The other night I was watching ABC's remake of "V" and wondering: What if the space-boot was on the other foot? What if we human beings were the "advanced" species, […]
Haiti. Chile. California. China. Is there something unusual going on in the earth's crust, or is the recent spate of major earthquakes a statistical fluke? And do we have any […]
In TIME, science writer Maia Szalavitz dissects a recent rat study that was reported as if it showed that junk food is "as addictive" as crack. Some rats were assigned […]
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What burdens does the author of "The Things They Carried" still bear?
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Reflections on the younger generation, and on growing old.
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The author and former veteran sees none of his generation’s "edgy," questioning attitude in the modern military.
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The rebellious anger of the Vietnam era hasn’t stopped war. In fact, "a slight stink of the hip" now surrounds our cultural memory of the event.
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Writing about dead loved ones can’t bring them back—or even preserve their memories, really. But it's something.
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For Tim O’Brien, "true war stories" can be lies, or take place years before or after a war. Here he shares one that made him want to cry—and reminds him […]
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Part of a writer's job is to puncture our clichés about subjects like love and war with irony, edge, and ridicule.