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Deteriorating infrastructure extends far beyond the Crescent City. At 6:05 p.m. on Aug. 1, 2007, the Minneapolis I-35W bridge spanning the Mississippi River collapsed, killing 13 and injuring 145. The National Transportation Safety Board later cited a design flaw as the cause, but the bridge had been classified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The '00s: Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade from Hell | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

Medieval England wins the gross-out award for its invention of the castle garderobe - a protruding room with a tiny opening out of which royalty would do their business. The garderobe was usually suspended over a moat that collected all manner of human discards, making for a particularly uninviting hurdle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of Toilets | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

Certainly, Phillips’s reasoning was somewhat simplistic and his manner of objection crude—his decision to tell his teacher to “go jump off a bridge,” for example, may not have been the most diplomatic way to deal with her attempts...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Standing Up | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

If women’s magazines wish to fully cater to their audiences, there needs to be a push not to eliminate the types of articles currently being published, but to include comparable ones for women of the same type, intensity, and depth. To their great credit, a few men?...

Author: By Maya Shwayder | Title: Save Some For Me | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

In your book, you refer to the U.S. and Europe as "twins keen to differentiate themselves." Why are we so intent on being different? It has to do with domestic politics. Anti-Europeanism exists in America, but it's a relatively minor aspect of the political discourse. Generally speaking, America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are the U.S. and Europe Really That Different? | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

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