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...were 25 again, handed a modern racquet and given six months to practice with it and whip yourself into shape, could you excel in the current era? Is there anything about the demands of modern tennis that you couldn't have coped with? These hypotheticals can come from a hundred different directions. But I finished my career in the seniors playing with a larger-headed racquet - it was wood and graphite. And I went back about 10 years! It was, "Hey, I can serve, I can volley." I had a bigger surface to play with and could put more spin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Legend Rod Laver on Tennis Today | 1/13/2008 | See Source »

...standards in those days went. I was a good step-cutter, and could climb incredible snow and ice pretty effectively. Things have changed so much that the technical ability of people like Messner is greatly superior to anything that we had. But I wouldn't say the modern mountaineer is any stronger, and certainly is not more strongly motivated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with the Last Adventurer | 1/12/2008 | See Source »

...sleeve) and liner notes are a big draw for young fans. "Alternative rock used to have 16-page booklets and album sleeves, but with iTunes there isn't anything collectible to show I own a piece of this artist," says Dreese of Newbury Comics. In a nod to modern technology, albums known as picture discs come with an image of the band or artist printed on the vinyl. "People who are used to CDs see the artwork and the colored vinyl, and they think it's really cool," says Jordan Yates, 15, a Nashville-based vinyl enthusiast. Some LP releases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vinyl Gets Its Groove Back | 1/10/2008 | See Source »

This summer, Alicia G. Harley ’08 investigated the possible environmental, economic, and social effects of different proposals to alleviate sprawl around Cairo, an ancient city facing the paradoxes of modern urban development...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Ancient City’s Sprawl | 1/10/2008 | See Source »

...also promised to help rebuild the main highway from Kaesong to Pyongyang. Given that there is already an expressway that runs from Seoul to the DMZ, optimists such as Lee Im Dong of the Kaesong Industrial Council note that this would, in effect, link Seoul to Pyongyang with a modern road in just a few years. South Korea is also interested in rebuilding ports at Rajin in northeast North Korea near China and Russia, and in the southwest at Haeju...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prying Open Pyongyang | 1/9/2008 | See Source »

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