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It was the last thing the hurricane-scarred city needed to hear. Tidewater was founded here a little more than 50 years ago, and kept its main office in New Orleans throughout the oil bust of the 1980s and the following decades of industry consolidation, when dozens of energy firms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Orleans' White-Collar Exodus | 7/6/2007 | See Source »

Which brings us to Facebook. Founded at Harvard early in 2004 by sophomore Mark Zuckerberg and transplanted to California that summer, it swept the nation's campuses with its unique mix of exclusivity (you couldn't sign up without a college e-mail address) and postadolescent rambunctiousness. Facebook began admitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Friends on Facebook | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

Back when I stopped drinking, such an experiment would have been unimaginable. At the time, the medical establishment had come to accept the idea that alcoholism was a disease rather than a moral failing; the American Medical Association (AMA) had said so in 1950. But while it had all the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How We Get Addicted | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

The gangs hold on to traditions that originated from a desire to shock the society that had shunned them. Mongrel Mobsters bark like dogs to show appreciation or enthusiasm, and use their hands to make the silhouette of a bulldog, the totem in the middle of their patch. Some wear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tribal Trouble | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

Yet no other political force has been able to fully capitalize on Fretilin's waning popularity, not even Gusmão's CNRT. Although the party was founded by East Timor's most beloved leader, CNRT was formed so hastily earlier this year that it was not able to build...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Timor's Fractured Election | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

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