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It still stands as one of the 20th Century's greatest feats of engineering: over a decade, vast battalions of workers braved illness and misadventure to carve a 50-mile long channel through the Panamanian isthmus to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. But for University of Maryland history professor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Many Men, A Plan, A Canal — Panama | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

Grace Mugabe, four decades the President's junior, is accused by critics of extravagant spending sprees, with funds supposedly siphoned from Zimbabwe's state bank. According to the Sunday Times, she has spent tens of thousands of dollars on designer handbags and Vietnamese marble statues, and is supposedly speculating in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mugabe's Home Away from Zimbabwe: Hong Kong? | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

Among those relieved that the bishop is being kicked out is Auschwitz survivor Mira Stupnik, 80, originally from Poland, who settled in Argentina with the tens of thousands of other Jews who came to this South American nation after the war. When she heard that Williamson lived in Argentina, Stupnik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina Deports a Holocaust-Denying Bishop | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

Suleman, Nadya • father of questions "mental situation" of • hostile reaction of tens of thousands of total strangers to prompts grim assessment by newly resigned publicists for ("They want to rip her uterus out")

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

Gaza Voices The plaintive "voices from the rubble" are clearly symptomatic of denial by the Gaza residents of their own culpability for civilian deaths [Feb. 9]. Gazans elected Hamas and enthusiastically supported and lauded the relentless bombardment of traumatized and beleaguered Israeli civilians by tens of thousands of deliberately targeted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stem-Cell Study Moves Ahead | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

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