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Sudan Leader Says He Intends to Step Down in 2015

(KHARTOUM, Sudan) — Sudan's president says he intends to step down in 2015 after more than 20 years in power. In an interview published in several Sudanese...

Partyer in Chief.

I don't know much about what the Tea Party stands for, but I do know it's my big chance to gain political power. Moving up in the Democratic or Republican Party...

The Skimmer: The WHO's Big Report on Road Safety

Global Status Report on Road Safety: Time for Action World Health Organization, 287 pages The Gist: The WHO's first-ever report on worldwide road safety...

Kennedy's Unfinished Senate Agenda

The Saturday morning that Senator Ted Kennedy was rushed to the hospital after having a seizure, I bumped into one of his staffers at the grocery store. Between...

Curser in Chief.

President George W. Bush has not exactly been a hero to civil libertarians, what with the data mining, wiretapping and library snooping. But he may just have...

From the Publisher: Sep 10 1990

Few tasks on a magazine are as important -- or difficult -- as choosing the image and words that appear on the cover. In a few seconds, they must interest the...

Religion: EUROPE'S NEW CHURCHES

GOD'S house was not always Gothic; the soaring arch and ribbed vault were daring innovations in the 12th century. The lights and lines of the church interiors...

BRAZIL: Ride

Revolution in coffee-growing Sao Paulo State bumbled along last week with much talk, little action save an inspired move by Rio de Janeiro's police chief...

Religion: THE NEW CHURCHES

SINCLAIR LEWIS, that old village atheist, ironically professed to see American skyscrapers as cathedrals; the commercial towers of Babbitt's home town "aspired...

Art: The New Churches

Across the land this Christmas season, churches old and new, grand or unpretentious, prepare for the gladdest occasion of the Christian calendar. The choirs,...