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...from about A.D. 800, then a Portuguese one from 1760. At the turn of the 20th century, it consisted of two forts, a grand plaza, countless mansions and a population of 37,000. But with the end of colonialism in 1975, Ibo was forgotten. Today, just 3,500 people live in and around the crumbling colonnades and red-tiled townhouses whose gardens still overflow with frangipanis, bougainvilleas and Indian almonds imported by the island's opulent forebears. And somehow, despite being considered for U.N. World Heritage status, Ibo has been barely rediscovered. There are just three small hotels: Miti Miwire...
...countries on its human-development index, which combines a variety of welfare measurements; Haiti comes in at 149th. In the Dominican Republic, average life expectancy is nearly 74 years. In Haiti, it's 61. You're substantially more likely to be able to read and write if you live in the eastern two-thirds of Hispaniola, and less likely to live on less than $1.25 a day. (See TIME's exclusive pictures from the Haiti earthquake...
...year-old Nicolas had strangled himself sometime after dinner in their apartment in Nice, France. His mother found him the next morning. "I shut the door so my other two children couldn't see, and I didn't touch the body," she says. "I thought that I couldn't live anymore. I thought I needed...
...movie about a person victimized by Big Tobacco is kind of the easy way. Whereas a lobbyist for Big Tobacco in Thank You for Smoking or a pregnant teenage girl in Juno or Ryan Bingham in Up in the Air--a guy who not only fires people for a living but also has made a very politicized decision to live alone--are certainly more interesting characters to humanize...
...that the passing of Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary was overlooked in your Farewells section. In addition to touching millions as a folksinger, Travers championed the causes about which she sang--including civil rights, the Vietnam War and the gay-rights movement. Her activism and art will live on forever...