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...toll from the earthquake that struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Sept. 30: at least 400 people believed dead, just some of what will probably be thousands of casualties from the quake; more than 10,000 buildings collapsed or condemned; a dozen or so villages wiped off the map by landslides. Pariaman, Karnova notes, is hardly a stranger to calamity. "Every natural disaster you can think of, it has happened here," he tells me. "Landslides, floods, volcano eruptions, earthquakes, even a tsunami. Some people ask me, Why don't you leave?" Karnova's mouth forms a smile that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind Asia-Pacific's Unnatural Disasters | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...trio used X-ray technology to map the ribosome, which creates proteins that control the chemistry in cells. The findings improved antibiotics' ability to disable ribosomes in bacteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...want to see the world," I told a boatman in Dubai Creek, and pulled out my map. He waved me on board his little wooden boat with no hesitation. I could have told him I wanted to sail up the river Styx, and he would have agreed. Times are tough in the Persian Gulf emirate, and my Bangladeshi boatman had spent hours chugging up and down the creek looking for a fare. It was his bad luck that his passenger appeared to be crazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Five-Star Ghost Town at the End of 'The World' | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...presidential predecessors from Washington to Reagan, Obama can use the Moses story to help guide Americans in troubled times. From the Pilgrims to the Founding Fathers, the Civil War to the civil rights movement, Americans have turned to Moses in periods of crisis because his narrative offers a road map of peril and promise. (See pictures of the Civil Rights movement from Emmett Till to Barack Obama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Moses Shaped America | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...current work has been the development of a new Hi-C technology, which allowed researchers to create a spatial map to conduct genome-wide analysis of the proximity of individual genes...

Author: By Manning Ding, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scientists Discover 3D Genome Structure | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

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