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...that formed later. Another hint that the merger theory is correct is that the collisions are still going on today. Astronomers can see hundreds of colliding galaxies in their telescopes, and our own Milky Way is still slowly gobbling up the half a dozen or so dwarf galaxies that surround...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Stars Were Born | 8/27/2006 | See Source »

...Thanks to technology, every literary agent can tell every author, "Your book's great." We let Amazon's rating system deliver the truth. Every politician can surround himself with yes men. Only the polls have the courage to say no. We're so accustomed to the watered-down, milquetoast version of news that when someone tells the truth, we're shocked and appalled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad News Comes in Small Bytes | 8/8/2006 | See Source »

...think it can. Consider the cases of Giada De Laurentiis and Suzanne Goin, top chefs who, despite the hot rewards that surround them every day, manage to remain vanishingly thin. I wondered if, by examining how they do it, I might learn to deploy what psychologists call "effortful control" when passing the vending machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 2 Thin Chefs | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

...notion you had about the imposing woman in the patent-leather clogs opposite you crumples. Wicked laughter punctuates every other sentence. She breaks into funny voices as she speaks. During the entire interview, not one tragedy befalls her. It turns out that there are a lot of myths that surround Streep. Some she cultivates, some she ignores. Here are seven of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 7 Myths About Meryl | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

...motivations of these Fatah leaders, many of whom surround Abbas, are less political and ideological than they are about restoring lost power and its ensuing privileges. Indeed, Fatah has shown little inclination to digest the real reasons for its electoral defeat - the fact that ordinary Palestinians see many of its leaders as incorrigibly corrupt and self-serving and view the movement as having no political vision for achieving Palestinian national goals. This view of Fatah is what prompted an electorate committed to a two-state solution to nonetheless vote Hamas into power, as a clean and more responsive alternative. Even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abbas' Referendum Gamble Risks a Palestinian Backlash | 6/6/2006 | See Source »

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