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...letters, including some made public this week, show how his personal and scientific struggles intertwined in 1915, culminating in his great triumph that fall. The tale begins with two letters written in early April by Hans Albert (known as Adu), begging his father to visit him and his brother (known as Tete) in Zurich for spring vacation: Dear Papa, Imagine, Tete can already multiply and divide, and I am doing gometetry (geometry), as Tete says. Mama assigns me problems; we have a little booklet; I could do the same with you then as well. But why haven't you written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Intimate Life of A. Einstein | 7/9/2006 | See Source »

...completed - but both Calder?n and L?pez Obrador wasted no time last night declaring victory. "We won the election without a doubt," Calder?n told his supporters near midnight, while L?pez Obrador went so far as to assure backers that his camp's own vote tallies indicated a PRD ?triumph? that was ?irreversible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Election Standoff in Mexico | 7/3/2006 | See Source »

...resources, and I need them, I may use my gun to take them." Moscow's heavy-handed interference in Ukraine's 2004 orange revolution hints at how easily discrepant views about the near abroad could flame up. The West viewed Viktor Yushchenko's victory as the triumph of people power over a malign Soviet-style government; Moscow saw an anti-Russian plot by the cia acting through democracy-promoting ngos. Should Ukraine go further by applying to join nato, Russia could apply crippling economic sanctions, including cutting off energy supplies or blocking trade. The ice age that would descend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's New World Order | 7/2/2006 | See Source »

...happier. This struck me as a pretty desperate rationalization. But then I glanced around the theater where I happened to be catching an early morning show of The Devil Wears Prada. It was full of large women in blue jeans who were not present to enjoy Andrea's moral triumph over the temptations of La Dolce Vita. They were there for the clothes, the bright chatter, the pretty people, the handsome arrangement of every shot in the picture. Who can blame them? I liked all that stuff myself. It is wonderful to see New York (or Paris) looking like their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Devil Wears Thin | 6/30/2006 | See Source »

...once in these polemical times, there may much more to agree on than to argue over. It a measure of the depth of suspicion on both sides that something almost universally hailed as a medical triumph still became a subject of controversy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defusing the War Over the "Promiscuity" Vaccine | 6/21/2006 | See Source »

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