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Long before ''cool'' got hot and poetry became the latest MTV fad, Rickie Lee Jones was striking beatnik poses on album covers and writing jazzy rhymes about a hipster demimonde of oddballs, outcasts and free spirits. On albums like Pirates (1981) and Flying Cowboys (1989), Jones' street-wise sensibility was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BOHO DANCE | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

Striking up conversations is not something I have observed to be a common practice on the Tokyo metro, but occasionally I find myself making friends. Sometimes kind people will stop to offer me directions when they notice me standing still and staring at signs. A college student woke me up...

Author: By Kerry A. Goodenow | Title: The Tokyo Underground | 7/20/2008 | See Source »

9 | New York Measuring America Since 1990 the U.N. has published an annual human-development report sizing up nations' progress in ensuring their citizens' health, education and standard of living. In The Measure of America, social-science researchers used the same standards to put the U.S. under the microscope and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

Nowadays, many of those exiles have returned home and joined one of the most exciting contemporary-art scenes in the world. But the explosion in Beijing's arts world is only one aspect of a broader cultural, social and even commercial flowering of the capital, until recently a symbol of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beijing's Revolution | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

It's striking, especially to us concrete, surgical types. I operated on the knee of a 99-year-old man a few years ago. He had been in good shape until he was hit by a car. The cartilaginous articular surfaces of his knee - the parts that rub together when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Aquatic Life | 7/15/2008 | See Source »

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