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With many of the world's economic movers, shakers and interpreters gathering in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos just as markets from Mumbai to Madrid were freaking out, there was no shortage of explanations as to why. The short answer: U.S. consumers, who have been increasing their spending without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the World Stop the Slide? | 1/23/2008 | See Source »

How did the world come to this happy position? You can list the usual reasons: two decades of decent macroeconomic policymaking, the triumph of markets and the collapse of command economies, the dissemination of transforming technologies and tools such as the Internet, and open trading systems. All of these are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tale Of Three Cities | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

Even in a crowded café, Jenna M. Mellor ’08 feels comfortable talking about female genitalia, and more specifically, describing in detail the structure of the vulva. “I enjoy my sexuality. I enjoy my body. I enjoy masturbating and it’s also...

Author: By Maeve T. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Jenna M. Mellor | 12/12/2007 | See Source »

The natural answer to getting too little sleep is to sleep more--perhaps a lot more. But hold on. Ferrie found that short sleepers who slept each night for five hours or less did indeed decrease their overall risk of dying within eight years when they snagged two to three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Good Night's Sleep | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

People have thus far viewed this tragedy from a wide range of perspectives. Some have considered this part of the disturbing trend of athletes as targets—in the past year, two major athletes have had themselves and their families taped up while their homes were robbed, and two...

Author: By Aparicio J. Davis | Title: Blame Canada! | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

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