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The hero of George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London makes his living as a plongeur, which is what French people call the dishwasher/gofer/house elf in a restaurant. He starts off at a hotel in Paris: "The kitchen was like nothing I had ever seen or imagined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chef Lit: Kitchen Writing | 6/17/2009 | See Source »

After enduring months of living in FEMA trailers, Toni Grimm and the neighbors at her barbecue are trying to move on - and stay put. Among the fortunate few with flood insurance, they still lost irreplaceable possessions to the flood waters. But Grimm's husband Tim says, "We aren't planning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Year After the Flood, Cedar Rapids Struggles | 6/17/2009 | See Source »

The Lowdown: At first glance, the report confirms what you probably already knew: health-wise, you're better off living in a rich country than in a poor one. Though they're home to less than half of the world's vehicles, low- and middle-income countries account for more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skimmer: The WHO's Big Report on Road Safety | 6/17/2009 | See Source »

The project is a push back against radical elements within Britain's 2 million or so Muslims. This is a matter of some urgency. Everyone remembers when 52 people were killed by homegrown suicide bombers who attacked London's transport system on July 7, 2005, and security officials say there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling Extremism with Education | 6/17/2009 | See Source »

Intelligence failures are more understandable today than they were in 1979. At that time, Washington stubbornly stood behind the regime of secular and autocratic Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, despite the rebirth of religious fundamentalism among millions of Iranians and their yearning for an obscure Muslim cleric living in exile: Ayatullah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Still Struggling to Understand Iran | 6/17/2009 | See Source »

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