Articles
The End Of Alimony
Debbie Leff Israel has a math problem. Like so many math problems, it's also a romantic problem. In 2009, Leff Israel, a divorced math professor, connected on...
The Angelina Effect
There's a chilly arithmetic to the way we all get sick. At the end of any year, a fixed and knowable number of us will have developed heart disease, and another...
The New Greatest Generation
I am about to do what old people have done throughout history: call those younger than me lazy, entitled, selfish and shallow. But I have studies! I have...
Excerpt: Author Temple Grandin Reports On ‘The Autistic Brain’
Temple Grandin, a professor of animal science at Colorado State University, eloquently described life from the perspective of someone living with autism in her...
World
Why China Can't Solve the Israel-Palestine Conflict Having emerged as an economic colossus and military power, the People's Republic of China achieves what other...
Photo Essays
LIFE Goes to a College Joust, 1952
It lasted roughly one thousand years (give or take a few centuries). It generated mind-boggling advances in science, technology and medicine. It saw magnificent...
Cambridge University's Annual May Balls
The U.K.'s Cambridge University celebrates its 800th anniversary in 2009. Its May Balls are held to celebrate the end of the academic year and go on till dawn...
Time.com Specials
FDA Warns Pregnant Women Of Migraine Medication Risks
U.S. health regulators are warning doctors and women of child-bearing age that half-a-dozen medications used to treat migraine headaches can decrease children’s...
10 Great College Acceptance Flicks
With the rom-com Admission playing in theaters, TIME presents an honor roll of movies about kids trying to get into the college of their choice
Articles from Around the Web
Quiet protest staged at Teachers College graduation
Some students staged a quiet protest at Columbia University Teachers College commencement ceremonies Tuesday in New York to express their unhappiness with the choice of Merryl...
Why ability grouping in schools is a mistake
She is a past president of the National Council of Teachers of English and now she supervises student teachers for Portland State University and writes books for teachers. Read...
Why ability grouping in schools is a mistake
She is a past president of the National Council of Teachers of English and now she supervises student teachers for Portland State University and writes books for teachers. Read...
' I once thought Maryland was below me'
The University of Maryland's English Department held its commencement ceremonies on Monday and student Jamie Lee gave the following unusually honest speech in which she concedes that she once thought going to College ...
