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Before the bombing in Oklahoma City, few Americans would have thought that either Miller or her show posed a serious threat to the civic order. Unlike many other American citizens who identify themselves as "patriots" -- an amorphous, far-right populist movement of both armed militias and unarmed groups that harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Threat from the Patriot Movement | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

It's not easy being the Census agency for America's baroque melting pot. And to be fair, Falcón notes, the Census hasn't slighted Hispanics in this year's count. On the contrary, as if acknowledging that Hispanics are now the nation's largest minority, the bureau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Black or White: Why the Census Misreads Hispanics | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

Galaxy Zoo was first launched in 2007 by astronomers and astrophysicists from the U.S. and U.K. The goal was to get the public to identify the shapes of 1 million galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), which were photographed between 2000 and 2008 by a telescope at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Classify a Million Galaxies in Three Weeks | 3/28/2010 | See Source »

People skip over names. But names have lots of meaning. I had troubles in the beginning. People were saying, "You're going to name a black character Leonid? How can you do that?" And I'd say, "Why not? Does it make any more sense to call him John? I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mystery Writer Walter Mosley | 3/25/2010 | See Source »

Essex was one of the first to link retroviruses to AIDS, to discover that HIV could be transmitted through bodily fluids, and to identify the protein now used world-wide to screen for the disease.

Author: By Elias J. Groll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Centers in Africa Fight HIV/AIDS | 3/25/2010 | See Source »

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