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In Tennessee, August is the occasion of the Elvis International Tribute, a week in which 15,000 Presley fans convene to watch a competition among Elvis impersonators, to participate in an Elvis trivia contest and to pay homage. Crowds also flock to the Wild and Wacky Raft Race in Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Praise of August | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Some of the pictures he took are almost lighthearted. In one, a guard is caught napping in a patch of sunlight; in another, seven hostages are dining in a kitchen, a kettle on the stove, a yellow shirt and underwear drying in the window. But Hill also aimed his camera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postscripts: Photo Finish | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Performance of the Week Newly crowned fastest man on the planet ASAFA POWELL, 22, broke the 100-m world record in Athens last week with a 9.77-sec. race. Powell, a Jamaican, shaved one-hundredth of a second off the record, becoming only the fourth non-American since 1912 to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 6/20/2005 | See Source »

Mind the economics: If you've got more than five events per year that you want to shoot for DVD, then there are other means that make sense. However, if it only costs around $45 to preserve an occasion, and to do it with very little hassle, I'd imagine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CVS One-Time-Use Video Camcorder | 6/15/2005 | See Source »

Tomorrow, those of us like myself, who haven’t yet started, will pack our bags and move out of the old Harvard dorms. There will be no pomp and circumstance. Just heavy lifting and chaos. Sometime next week, we will wake up and the realization that weâ?...

Author: By Benjamin J. Toff, | Title: Meditation on Tradition | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

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