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...their lives and relationships? Hilary Black, a veteran magazine editor (More, Tango) was determined to find out. The result is her compelling new anthology, The Secret Currency of Love: The Unabashed Truth About Women, Money, and Relationships (William Morrow). In it, a number of prominent female writers (including Julia Glass, Laurie Abraham and Joni Evans) spill the beans about money in their own lives. Black spoke by phone from her home in New York City to TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs...
...that not all attraction is equal. Some materials are drawn much more powerfully together than others - particularly on the nano (billionth of a meter) scale. And that difference can be exploited. In the Nature experiment, the research team began by placing a microscopically small sphere of gold on a glass surface. Gold and glass get along well enough and under the right circumstances will attract. But what they both like a whole lot more is a liquid called bromobenzene. When the researchers introduced a little bromobenzene to the other two materials, they both began drawing so much of it that...
...usual, this feature was smart, irreverent and entertaining. Maybe you could also have added "Top 10 Magnifying-Glass Manufacturers?" Type as small as that is usually found at the bottom of legal documents. Robert Wilson, PORDENONE, ITALY...
...drums of war being sounded in New Delhi and Islamabad, life goes on. A few days after two terrorists killed 10 patrons at the Leopold Café, a popular drinking spot, I sat there and watched an elderly carpenter with a ruler and tape take measurements of the large glass pane, damaged by bullet holes, that fronted the bar. Onlookers snapped pictures of the poignant moment of recovery, camera flashes twinkling in the crystalline cracks. At the end of the Inferno, Dante plunges into the icy depths of Hell and beholds the terror of Satan's face. But he finally...
...list of items i need: 1) magnifying glass to read the tiny print in TIME's List Issue. 2) Stronger magnifying glass to burn holes in those lists that are still too small to see, even with help from a magnifying glass. 3-10) I'm good. Happy New Year! Jeffrey Kaufman, Belford...