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When I visited him in the hospital after the attack, he was ailing. Diabetic, deaf and almost sightless--yet he was, in his way, full of life. For years afterward, he held salons at which he encouraged people to discuss literature and world events. "I feel no hatred," he told me once, "but it is very bad to try to kill someone for a book you haven't read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 11, 2006 | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

...start of the dark ages, there were no galaxies, no stars, no planets. Even if there had been, we wouldn't be able to spot them. That's because hydrogen-gas clouds are nearly opaque to visible light; no ordinary telescope will ever be able to see what happened afterward. Yet somehow the matter that started as a sea of individual atoms managed to transform itself into something more. So back in the early 1990s, Loeb began lobbying theorists to make a major push to deduce through computer simulations how the first stars formed. The plan was to re-create...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Stars Were Born | 8/27/2006 | See Source »

...worth soaking up the dramatic ambience. I'd then dine at Varoulko downtown for a platter of baby calamari sautéed in basil sauce and a dessert of fruit soup and cinnamon ice cream.[an error occurred while processing this directive] You can burn it off afterward by bopping and bouncing among Athens' chichi socialites at Balthazar in the city center. But if there's a full moon, the Parthenon is the place to be. A frenzy of free events and entertainment has crowds clambering until 3 a.m. FOTIS A. KARAYANNOPOULOS, attorney Begin with a martini at the Hilton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Night In Athens | 8/8/2006 | See Source »

There aren't many people at this morning's service at St. Stephen's Uniting Church, but there's much goodwill. And homespun wisdom. The congregation's grande dame is 95-year-old Ruby Coster-Martin, who over tea afterward is asked by a fellow parishioner for the secret of her robust health. "They say you live by what you eat," says Ruby, who lost her driver's license only a few months ago for driving too slowly in her test. "I have always been a vegetable and fruit eater-milk and butter, too-and I have great faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defenders Of the Faith | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...grammar or vocabulary made my origin even more obvious, I could still understand and be understood. That is until I had Catalán to contend with.After two weeks, I worked with a different doctor. The first patient entered and fifteen minutes of Catalán conversation ensued. Afterward, I politely asked the doctor if he would please speak Castellan since I have not learned any Catalán. “That is your own disability” he replied. Weeks later, in a meeting, everyone obligingly spoke Castellan until one doctor accidentally lapsed into Catalán. When...

Author: By Steven A. Mcdonald, | Title: Catalán, Anyone? | 8/4/2006 | See Source »

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