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...surreptitious inching forward of the moon. It was a show with no language and no tickets. I imagined, across the strip of land that was experiencing total eclipse, people turning in unison as the sky went dark and the sun billowed out at them around a deep black hole. There may be nothing tangible that can unite every person across that strip of land from Varanasi to Shanghai except, perhaps, the fact that for one instant of total eclipse they all lived where the sun chose to hide itself. I remember learning about how smiles are universal?...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan | Title: The Revealing | 8/4/2009 | See Source »

Seaside Condo in Brazil This multisuite condo near São Paulo has an infinity pool and a dry sauna Will swap for: A house in Jackson Hole, Wyo., or Hawaii Where it's listed: HomeExchange.com, a 17-year-old site whose membership (at $99.95 annually) is up 34% this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Exchange: Trading (Vacation) Places | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

...Mason's lingering impact will be felt most strongly through her more than 25 plays about the black experience in America. One of her most highly regarded works, A Star Ain't Nothin' but a Hole in Heaven, portrayed a college-bound woman as she becomes aware of the price civil rights activists paid for the opportunities she is afforded. In 1977 the drama earned Mason the first Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judi Ann Mason | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

With the U.S. trillions of dollars in the hole, 70 cents an hour sounds like chump change. But it's a big boost for the millions of workers who earn that much extra as of July 24. The increase is the third and final uptick in a hike that has since 2007 boosted the federal minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25. In total, the extra $2 and change translates into a yearly raise of some $4,400 for a full-time minimum-wage worker, nosing his or her family of four above the poverty line. (See 10 ways your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Minimum Wage | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

...states are facing shortfalls totaling $166 billion - 24% of their total budgets. Rendell, the outgoing chairman of the NGA, was unable to attend the Biloxi meeting because he had to stay in Pennsylvania and struggle with the legislature to find a way to plug a $3.2 billion fiscal hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicaid and the States: Health-Care Reform's Next Hurdle | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

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