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But that level of control may be counterproductive. It's possible that the very steps we're taking to keep society safe and such prisoners in check are achieving just the opposite. The U.S. holds about 2 million people under lock and key, and 20,000 of them are confined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Prisons Driving Prisoners Mad? | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

The family of Harel, the founder of Migron, embodies that divide. Harel's father Israel was among the early settlers who crossed into Jordanian territory after the 1967 war. He says that settlers like him were driven by a collective Zionism akin to socialism. "Our motivation wasn't religious," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Land Of the Lonely | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

But Tymoczko may have changed all that. Borrowing some of the mathematics that string theorists invented to plumb the secrets of the physical universe, he has found a way to represent the universe of all possible musical chords in graphic form. "He's not the first to try," says Yale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Geometry of Music | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

But if you go to Tymoczko's website music.princeton.edu/~dmitri) you can see exactly what he's getting at by looking at movies he has created to represent tunes by Chopin and, of all things, Deep Purple. In both cases, as the music progresses, one chord after another lights up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Geometry of Music | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

"My last and greatest reform," Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone calls it. When he steps down from his post, as he is expected to do next fall, he hopes to leave behind at least one lasting legacy: a comprehensive reform of Japan's tax system. Last week his goal seemed within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taxing Job: Nakasone's crusade for reform | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

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