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The Jewish calendar features a holiday this week that has garnered the unofficial moniker of the Jewish “get-drunk-off-your-ass” day. To properly commemorate Purim, a day-long celebration of the Jews’ escape from destruction by the hands of a wicked...

Author: By Avishai D. Don | Title: Sex, Love, and Purim | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

At least, they do if towns have their own homegrown Marios. The James Beard Foundation Awards announced this past week their list of semifinalists (see a PDF) for their regional and national chef awards, and there are no more than a handful whose names would be familiar to most diners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mario Batali, Celebrity Chef, Gets Back to Cooking | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

Ohno has two more races left in Vancouver, the 500 meters and the 5,000-meter relay. (The finals for both events are Feb. 26.) Another gold would more firmly cement his Olympic legacy. "There's not many athletes that come in back-to-back Olympics games and medal," Ohno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Ohno the Greatest Winter Olympian of All Time? | 2/21/2010 | See Source »

For his part, Tutu was delighted at some of the unexpected discoveries from his genes. He is Bantu, a traditionally agricultural people, and was included in the study to represent their ancestry. But his genome revealed that he is also maternally related to the San, a hunter-gatherer population that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Secrets Lie in Archbishop Tutu's Genome? | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

Over on the other side of the pond—i.e. our own blessed soil— the presence of a burglar seems to render any form of violence acceptable, and shows the dangers of too generous allowances in the name of self-protection. In the majority of states, a...

Author: By Olivia M. Goldhill | Title: Stolen Lives | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

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