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...most accomplished and influential African-American architect of his generation, Max Bond died on Feb. 18 at 73. In a profession with few role models of color, his career became a reference point for others to emulate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: J. Max Bond Jr. | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...first discovered Max in the early '90s at the beginning of my career and was instantly a fan. He was a tireless campaigner for the inclusion and recognition of architects from the African diaspora. He was a great collaborator, able to hear and work with other voices and to push them toward realizing their goals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: J. Max Bond Jr. | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...most famous modern studies to demonstrate our collective folly, from a paper written by psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman that was published in Science in 1974. In that paper, Tversky and Kahneman discuss an experiment in which subjects were asked to estimate the percentage of African countries represented in the U.N. Before they guessed, a researcher spun a wheel of fortune in front of them that landed on a random number between 0 and 100. People tended to pick an answer that wasn't far from the number on the wheel, even though the wheel had nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Dreams Mean Less Than We Think | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

...with said no one had ever needed one before. A young U.S. Army soldier nearby agreed that it didn't make sense and apologized to me. Sorry, he said, I can't help you - the Iraqis are in charge now. Eventually I piggybacked in with a South African contractor working for the Department of Defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New in Town: How Baghdad Has Changed | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

...gated entrance told TIME there was no such house; she was contradicted by a superior who said its occupants had left strict instructions not to be disturbed by visitors. When two Sunday Times journalists approached the compound to photograph the villa last week, they were reportedly assaulted by three African guards and had to receive medical treatment. This attack followed another encounter last month, when Grace Mugabe and a bodyguard allegedly slapped and bruised a photographer tailing her around a ritzy Hong Kong mall. She left the city, a special administrative region of China, before investigators could make inquiries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mugabe's Home Away from Zimbabwe: Hong Kong? | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

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