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...strongly urge any U.S. investors to stay away from Mexico real estate," says Nancy Conroy, former editor and publisher of the English language newspaper, Gringo Gazette North. "Basically, northern Baja is under military occupation, there are several narco shootings per day, and tourists are not immune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baja, Land of Drug Wars, Tries to Draw Tourists | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...there's a bittersweet quality to the new Broadway revival of Ayckbourn's celebrated trilogy The Norman Conquests. First produced in 1973, it's one of his most grandly entertaining works: three plays that chronicle the same traumatic family weekend in an English country house from three vantage points - dining room, sitting room and garden. It is packed with laughs, brimming with stage tomfoolery (a character who leaves the dining room in one play shows up in the sitting room in the next) and staged superbly by Matthew Warchus, in a production first seen at London's Old Vic Theatre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alan Ayckbourn: Man of the Moment | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...damned funny (though grounded, as Ayckbourn's comedy always is, in real human emotion) that it may simply perpetuate the misconception of Ayckbourn as a skilled boulevard entertainer. Which would leave American audiences still largely ignorant of the astonishing body of work by - controversial-pronouncement alert! - the greatest living English-language playwright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alan Ayckbourn: Man of the Moment | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...users to zoom in on ancient documents and archival photographs. The Library also contains a sophisticated search tool that allows users to browse by keywords, time period, place, type of item and the institution which contributed it. Finally, it provides descriptions of all materials in seven languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish - the official languages of the United Nations), though many of the documents, books and other components appear in their original languages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The UN's World Digital Library | 4/22/2009 | See Source »

...Bill of Rights as well the constitutions of numerous countries. There are also gems like the first printed edition of the 16th-century Japanese novel The Tale of Genji, and a journal kept by a Venetian scholar who accompanied Ferdinand Magellan on his voyage around the world. If English is more your speed, try the translation of a French voyager's tour of the Indian Ocean - maybe a safer trip than it is today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The UN's World Digital Library | 4/22/2009 | See Source »

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