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...from the vibrant multicultural city across the water. Stay at the Africa Studio www.sa-venues.com/wc/africastudio.htm) a loft-style complex close to Cape Town's liveliest restaurants and the bohemian neighborhood of Bo Kaap, or the Metropole Hotel (www.metropolehotel.co.za), which fuses Victorian architecture with one of South Africa's most modern interiors. Both hotels are close to Ginja, a modern take on a traditional French brasserie. After dinner, head upstairs to Shoga, a bar where the color of your skin matters less than what clothes you wear or what car you drive. In so many ways, South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Life: Unexpected Encounters | 10/29/2007 | See Source »

...modern era is setting records in the other direction. The longest regulation game in history was played in 2006 between the Red Sox and New York Yankees. It lasted four hours and 45 minutes. And the same two teams fell just two minutes short of that record in another game this season. The mark they broke (4:27) was set in 2001. With over 100 years of baseball history, that’s an awful lot of distinction for just this decade...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich | Title: How Our Pastime Passes Time | 10/29/2007 | See Source »

...Neanderthals it could be the same. But of course, the beauty of our study is that we prove it directly from the genes, a kind of color under the skin approach,” Lalueza-Fox said. While Neanderthals followed a different evolutionary path to their redheaded appearance than modern humans, their pale skin and red hair provided certain advantages comparable to that of northern Europeans today. At high altitudes, where there is less UV radiation, homo sapiens have light skin to help absorb sufficient Vitamin D for healthy bones. Red hair has no apparent evolutionary advantage, although some have...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Study: Prehistoric Redheads | 10/29/2007 | See Source »

...taking some satisfaction in coming in second. Crediting the Peronist party organization for getting out its vote, she said "I'm a woman without a political apparatus and without a husband, so I did pretty well." Furthermore she said, "The Civic Coalition is here to stay as a modern, civilized republican force that could provide the next President in four years' time." And, who knows, that President may be a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mixed Message in Argentina's Vote | 10/29/2007 | See Source »

...contributes less CO2 to the atmosphere. But many Germans are not impressed. The idea of a speed limit left Franz Joseph Wagner, a columnist in the daily Bild, a mass circulation paper, frankly fuming. After musing in German fashion on the virtues of automobiles generally as "the horses of modern times, "the best horse that ever was," the commentator wrote: "Leave me my car that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No More Fun on the Autobahn? | 10/29/2007 | See Source »

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