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...depths of Kibera, where few outsiders dare to visit, charred barricades of trash and tires still litter the streets, and wrecks of cars now block the railroad tracks made famous in The Constant Gardener, the Ralph Fiennes movie that was filmed there in 2004. The damage to the area has been so bad that it is impossible to find water to drink or even a bottle of Coca Cola to purchase. Despite their support of Odinga, some residents wonder whether their rage was worthwhile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Massacre in a Kenyan Church | 1/1/2008 | See Source »

...daughter of the ruling elite, trained to never pick up a ringing phone or travel without a driver. She wore traditional dresses and told friends about her vacations with Chinese leader Mao Zedong. In private, her constant homesickness brought her to tears...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Classmates Remember Strong-Willed and Patriotic Bhutto | 12/28/2007 | See Source »

...night, three computers in Wilkinson's bedroom scour the Internet, caught in a constant loop of what he terms "scraping" - constantly going through search engines, blogs, networking sites, video hubs and other sources for what's hot, what's new, and where his students stand. Thus far, what they have uncovered is a sprawling, and expanding, virtual hierarchy that is all but unknown by most Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Googling for Your Grade | 12/20/2007 | See Source »

...House in 1994 - regular, workaday fires like the one that happened this morning in Vice President Dick Cheney's ceremonial suite at the Old Executive Office are not actually all that common on the White House grounds. Given the 27 wood-burning fireplaces, high volume of bureaucratic traffic and constant maintenance and refurbishing, it is not too bad a record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Short History of White House Fires | 12/19/2007 | See Source »

...tenured and tenure-track positions in the sciences have remained constant over the past two decades, according to FASEB, upping the competition among newly minted Ph.D...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ph.D.s Ditch the Lab | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

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