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...Genius, L. Jon Wertheim reconstructs the 2008 Wimbledon final between Switzerland's Roger Federer and Spain's Rafael Nadal. That epic match - which took more than seven waterlogged hours to complete and ended with a Nadal victory in near darkness - is widely considered to be the greatest tennis match ever played. Strokes of Genius uses the match as a scaffolding to talk about the two tennis greats, their rivalry and the sport's beauty. TIME caught up with Wertheim, Sports Illustrated's tennis writer, as he prepared to cover Wimbledon 2009, which began on June...
...opening credits of the '80s coming-of-age drama The Wonder Years for a quick hit of nostalgia.) When Paul Simon sang, "Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away" in 1973, Kodak was still expanding its Kodachrome line, and it was hard to believe that it would ever disappear. But by the mid-1980s, video camcorders and more easily processed color film from companies like Fuji and Polaroid encroached on Kodachrome's market share, and the film fell into disfavor. Compared to the newer technology, Kodachrome was a pain to develop. It required a large processing machine and several different...
...wind power - it accounted for 42% of all new electricity generation added to the U.S. grid last year - wind still makes up less than 3% of America's total electricity generation. Even at current rates of growth, that figure is unlikely to change soon. The question is, Will wind ever produce enough power to satisfy America's energy needs? (Watch TIME's video "The Truth About Wind Power...
...This would probably qualify as "rationing," but anyone who's ever had an insurer refuse to pay for something knows that health care is already rationed, in the sense that you can't always get everything you want. Still, oxen would be gored, and the backlash could be nasty. The ultimate success of Obamacare might depend on a cultural change among doctors and patients, a national realization that more care isn't better care. "We've got this ethos that the best doctors do everything under the sun and rule out every zebra," Emanuel says. "And hey, they get paid...
...Hardly anyone believes that Iran will ever again have a Shah - especially one who resides in Maryland and isn't allowed to cross the Iranian border. But he would like to return home as a welcomed citizen and share his roots with his wife and his three Iranian-American daughters. (Read "State Television Becomes a Focus for Iranian Anger...