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...investors already wounded by the global economic crash, news of a potential pandemic came as a further blow. "As if we didn't have enough to contend with," strategists at the Royal Bank of Scotland wrote in a note to clients Monday, "it's just what we need now, a flu pandemic in the midst of the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression." Amid the sell-off, travel industry stocks fell sharpest. Shares in Lufthansa, Europe's second-largest airline, tumbled by more than 12% before recovering slightly. Those of rival British Airways pulled back from similar lows, trading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swine Flu Virus Infects World Stock Markets | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...Blow up your browser! The Next Big Thing is the AfterWeb. Facebook made a monumental announcement Monday that seemed as though it was designed to one-up its supposed rival Twitter. But in fact, the real news is that Facebook, like so many others these days, is morphing away from a website, to something far more evolved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facebook's Big Move Toward the AfterWeb | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...like him might have been happy to settle into his seat at the high table of Kenyan politics. Instead, the former journalist uncovered a far-reaching scam extending to the highest levels of his party and then publicized it, thus becoming the first senior official in Africa to blow the whistle on his own government. The story of his struggle to do so, told in Michela Wrong's new book It's Our Turn to Eat, provides a rare insider's look at corruption in a developing society. It also shines an unflattering light on the complacency of some major...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eating in Africa | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...weeks ago Harvard was swept by Yale in a doubleheader that seemed to put the division title out of reach, and the team gave up seven runs with two outs in the bottom of the sixth against Brown to let the Bears blow open what had been a close game...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TO SAY THE LEIST: Harvard Can't Come Up With Final Rally | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...original companions in protest have whichever way the winds blow, he’ll still be protesting...

Author: By Sami M. Khan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Staffer Seeks 9/11 Truth | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

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