Articles
Business & Finance: Capital-Gains Sense
While Congressional taxmen were agreeing on the new corporation tax laws last week (see p. 88), they also revamped personal income taxes. Most significant...
Apple-Led Australian Ban on Samsung Galaxy Tablet Tossed
That appeal Apple filed last week to roll back a decision by an Australian court to un-ban sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in Australia? Rejected by...
INVESTMENT: Capital-Gains Stall
Those lucky investors who years ago put $20,000 into International Business Machines, or a similar growth stock, and have seen it soar to $500,000 today, do...
Photo Essays
Born Under Fire: The Dawn of Israel, 1948
Sixty-five years ago this week, in the midst of a civil war and at the tail end of the decades-long British Mandate of Palestine, the state of Israel was born...
The Practice of Medicine, Perfected: Portrait of a Doctor, France, 1953
So much has been written about the American healthcare system in recent years — in short, that it’s an insanely byzantine, profit-driven train wreck — that it’s...
Time.com Specials
Gollum’s Getup: How The Hobbit‘s Groundbreaking Technology Works
At a pivotal point in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, our hero encounters Gollum, the haggard creature moviegoers will recognize from the director’s The Lord of the...
Rio Climate Summit: Top 10 Priorities for a Planet in Peril
The ongoing global financial crisis may be distracting world leaders, but that doesn't make the environmental issues up for discussion at the U.N.'s annual...
Articles from Around the Web
The Wheels Come Off Kepler Planet- Finding Mission
NASA's Kepler spacecraft is not only the most prolific exoplanet detector ever; it is -- or was -- a marvel of engineering. Its 1.4-meter mirror funnels starlight to...
See Mercury, Venus and Jupiter in Tightest Night Sky Cluster until 2026
The planets Mercury, Venus and Jupiter will form'' the tightest gathering of three naked-eye planets that the world will see until 2026,'' according to the venerable Sky &...
After the Fact: Small Wheels Play Big Role on Kepler Spacecraft
Reaction wheels are crucial in helping orient spacecraft like the Kepler telescope, which recently lost use of a second wheel, highlighting the challenges designers face. ...
Swiss Cheese and Dust Devils: 7 High- Resolution Shots of Surface Activity on Mars...
The arrival of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) at the Red Planet in 2006 ushered in a whole new era of Mars observation. With its ultrapowerful HiRISE camera, the...
