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Many Americans, rejoicing in an unprecedented period of economic success and celebrating the new horizons opened up by our latest technologies, are likely to embrace the future as a dashing (if unknown) stranger who's appeared at our door to whisk us into a strange new world. Those who travel...
In Seeing Mary Plain (Norton; 939 pages; $35), Frances Kiernan, a former fiction editor at the New Yorker, has written a portrait not only of McCarthy, the critic and novelist, but also of her literary generation. Kiernan's book teems with a splendid cast of characters--starting with McCarthy's...
That's not a surprising move in today's financial climate, says TIME financial writer Bernard Baumohl. "The retail side of things has always been the least profitable aspect of banking, because you have to lease property and pay tellers." Traditional banks have also been losing individual customers to an...
Last week disparate pieces fell together, locked in place, and, suddenly, abstract controversies were framed in a comprehensible melodrama: a mother's search for justice, a city's battle against crime, the skin colors of power and powerlessness, the politics of outrage, the ambitions of a First Lady and a...
But the battle to save elephants will never end so long as humans value ivory. African countries have been collecting tusks from animals who died naturally or were culled from herds, and last year the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species allowed one-time sales from some stockpiles. In...