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One of the deadliest pandemics in human history - the Black Death of the 14th century, which killed roughly 25 million people in Europe - resulted in massive social dislocation and doubt in an omnipotent God, which some scholars think led to the intellectual ferment of the Renaissance. Cholera, when it came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment: Mexico City | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

And the next day John and I spoke. He wasn't coy, but it turned out he wasn't forthright either. A single night and since then remorse, was what he said. There were other opportunities, he admitted, but on only one night had he violated his vows to me...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elizabeth Edwards: How I Survived John's Affair | 5/5/2009 | See Source »

"Looks like crap, it is crap," Bauer explains while holding up your average business card, one that creases, tears, and does all sorts of dreadful things that paper is wont to do. "And it's the same size as every other business card you guys just gave me!" (What guys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Business Card Is CRAP! | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

Handler, Barbie's most fervent advocate, was born in 1916, the 10th child of Polish-Jewish immigrants. Though she married and had a family, she had little interest in staying at home with her children, Barbara and Ken (who resented their mother's naming her dolls after them). "If I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Books | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

Hare's big ideas aren't as revolutionary these days, but his liberal leanings persist. The heroes of his plays are the people left to clean up the messes made by those in power: "priests or policemen, social workers or teachers," he says. Where his earliest works urged the collapse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Hare: Truth to Power | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

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