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France, Germany, Brazil, Japan, and the UK all have ministries of culture. Some might say that’s all fine and good, but those countries are not America—where the government generally refrains from interfering with our sense of who we are. Young Republicans may see little worth in more red tape—even if it’s wrapped around reinvigorated national pride. Young Democrats—who have ironically paid less attention to public culture over the last decade than Republicans—may fear the purview of the state over something as precious...
...news broke at 6 a.m. in New York, just as President Barack Obama was preparing for an evening press conference in Japan. In an age when electrons travel the world in an instant, it took no time at all before everyone knew: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks who was subjected to waterboarding 183 times, will face trial in a New York City federal court with four other Guantánamo Bay detainees. (See pictures of Gitmo detainees...
Perhaps in anticipation of the distractions of the news cycle, Obama's aides have scheduled only three press conferences during his weeklong trip, one each in Japan, China and South Korea. At each event, only one member of his traveling press corps will be able to ask Obama a question, though such questions tend to have multiple parts. The President has also scheduled one-on-one interviews with some U.S. media outlets...
...freak accident, two esteemed physicists have formulated a theory that suggests an alternative explanation: perhaps a time-traveling bird was sent from the future to sabotage the experiment. Bech Nielsen of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, Japan, have published several papers over the past year arguing that the CERN experiment may be the latest in a series of physics research projects whose purposes are so unacceptable to the universe that they are doomed to fail, subverted by the future. (See pictures of the Large Hadron Particle Collider...
...avoided - if they were men. Apart from hazards like female infanticide and maternal deaths, women are more likely to contract HIV, suffer from depression and domestic abuse, and lack access to basic health care that could help them survive. (See TIME's pictures "Self-Injury and Despair in Japan...