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...Ripe for Revolution A recent - and extremely rare - trip into a Naxalite zone in the state of Chhattisgarh shows just how much control the Maoists have in India's neglected heartland. After weeks of negotiating, I received word from a senior commander there that cadres from the area would escort a photographer and me into the field to meet a rebel unit. After an early morning, two-hour motorbike ride along dirt roads south of the town of Dantewada, across rivers where women beat their clothes against rocks and through villages full of thatched and terracotta-roofed huts, scrawny chickens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's Secret War | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

Plus, as Under Armour moves beyond cleats to sneakers with broader appeal, it is picking an ideal entry point: the training-shoe market is ripe for a revival. Nike popularized cross-trainers in the late '80s and early '90s with its famous "Bo Knows" campaign, which depicted the multisport star Bo Jackson playing hoops, football and tennis and weight-lifting in his Nikes. Since that heyday, the sporting life has become more specialized but training more diverse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Under Armour's Big Step Up | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...probably the stalest cliche in show business, so much so that one thinks maybe it's ripe for re-examination. Let's stipulate that great comedy - like great anything - is difficult. But it seems to me that creating OK comedy, the sort of thing that allows you to pass an idle Saturday night pleasantly, if not memorably, is not necessarily a life-threatening activity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Happens in Vegas Stays Sucky | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

...room of the Hotel Majestic in Barcelona. It was the summer before my senior year and I was celebrating the end of my 10-week magazine internship in New York with a week spent gloriously feasting on Spanish delicacies—salty chorizo and ripe pan con tomato, crispy croquettes and hot patatas bravas, washed down with sugary shots of melacoton...

Author: By Rebecca A. Kaden, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gourmet Food For Thought | 4/30/2008 | See Source »

Most of us have a pretty good idea about how we want to die: at home, at peace, quickly, with family, without pain. And at a ripe old age. But progress begets paradox: we've gotten so good at the last goal, it swallowed the others, so we live longer but die slower. Two out of three people die in hospitals or nursing homes, often alone, the process prolonged by a conspiracy of hope, fear, bureaucracy, inertia. When researchers not long ago interviewed family members of the recently deceased, half of them said their loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Light of Death | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

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