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...hadn't guessed by now, Death Cab for Cutie can be as precious as a unicorn on a Hello Kitty T shirt. That makes the band's new album, Plans, out Aug. 30, one of the more intriguing arrivals of the summer. Death Cab's previous records peaked at respectable low-to-mid six figures on Barsuk Records, an independent label so tiny that it gets most of its mail at a P.O. box. With Plans, the band moves to the hulking multinational Atlantic, and even though big record companies are in danger of mismanaging themselves into irrelevance, the major...
...myth that he was too soft, too weird and too bourgeois to fit the mold of a platinum-selling rapper. His 2004 debut album, The College Dropout, went nearly triple platinum, topped all the major critics' polls, earned 10 Grammy nominations and made rap accessible to audiences that hadn't paid attention in years. "That record restored my faith in hip-hop," says Jamie Foxx, who lent comic vocals to West's No. 1 hit Slow Jamz...
...Salman Rushdie hadn't been sentenced to death by Ayatullah Khomeini and if he weren't chummy with the likes of Kylie Minogue, he would be famous merely for being one of the world's greatest living writers. He chats with TIME's Lev Grossman about his new novel, Shalimar the Clown (coming in September), the crisis in Kashmir, the nature of tragedy and the future of the Klingon race...
...didn't have any debilitating chronic diseases. Most likely she succumbed to an infection or bad water or tainted food, as did some 50% of ancient Egyptian children within a year or two of being weaned. The bones and teeth also helped fix her age; her adult teeth hadn't grown in yet. And her gilded face mask indicated that her parents were wealthy. With higher-res scans, scientists may someday make out the hieroglyphs on the inside of the cartonnage--and thus, perhaps, give the little one back her rightful name...
...Soon after her mother died in 1995 at age 78 as a result of a series of misdiagnoses and medication errors, Dingman started a patient-advocacy organization called PULSE, or Persons United Limiting Substandards and Errors in health care. "In every scenario, people who have filed lawsuits wish they hadn't had to go through this," she says. "One hundred percent of the time, we hear, 'If only the doctor had apologized...