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Those of us who wasted fruitful hours filling in the blanks in all these publications determined that Number Place was a pleasant enough diversion, if not nearly so demanding or compelling as Cross Sums (aka Sum Totals), a crossword with numbers, or that sublimely torturous form of the crossword known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs Sudoku? | 6/17/2006 | See Source »

Solving a crossword takes brains and patience. Solving it in a few minutes, standing on a stage filling the spaces on a large board, with hundreds of people watching, demands poise, steel nerves and a killer instinct. These requirements strictly limit the number of serious competitors at the Stamford stampede...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs Sudoku? | 6/17/2006 | See Source »

If you're in Japan and are having trouble laying your hands on a first edition of Jack Kerouac's On The Road, or Allen Ginsberg's Howl, then consider a trip to Cow Books, www.cowbooks.jp. Specializing in countercultural works, the Tokyo bookshop is a repository for treasures that will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brain Fodder | 6/13/2006 | See Source »

That's probably not fair to either Warner, who's been working hard to buff up his foreign policy chops, or the bloggers. But the ersatz press conference seemed of a piece with the chocolate fountain the night before - elaborate, fussy, and meant to impress but ultimately messy and not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Among the Believers: Beating Up on Big Media | 6/13/2006 | See Source »

Here pumping the chest, inflating the lungs, filling the blood vessels and starting the heart were the immediate and technically demanding needs. It was only when the medicine was unknown to us or very complex - renal failure cases, rare diseases or cancer patients on weird experimental chemo - that we looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mystery of the Double Cardiac Arrest | 6/8/2006 | See Source »

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