Making the golden years shine
Why the baby boom generation should be itching to reinvent retirement Marc Freedman | November 2007 issue A fit, handsome sixty-something couple stretches out on a sandy beach. Another silver-haired pair steers a sailboat toward the sunset. A grey-templed golfer watches his drive soar down the Read More...
Get invested in change
Shareholder resolutions can bring revolutions. Amy Domini | November 2007 Read More...
Try a little kindness
The powerful therapeutic tool that makes psychologists nervous. David Servan-Schreiber | November 2007 issue When I teach psychotherapy to my colleagues who are psychiatrists or psychologists, I am always careful to stress the importance not only of mastering techniques but of paying the utmost Read More...
What the West can learn from the rest
The world is becoming One. But the game is being played according to rules set by the West. In process, we are seeing material gain and progress for developing nations - but also substantial loss. Ode asked leading opinion-makers in the developing countries what the West can learn that would Read More...
School for social change
At a pioneering academy in Johannesburg, underprivileged Africans are learning to become entrepreneurs. Fred De Vries | October 2007 issue Behind the public library, at the corner of Commissioner and Sauer streets, the problems of Johannesburg—and other cities on the African continent—are Read More...
Textbook success
How a jobless young man became a world leader. Fred De Vries | October 2007 issue Lucky Madonsela grew up in an illegal settlement near Duduza township, east of Johannesburg. He had been unemployed for three years when he applied to CIDA in 2004. Once in school, he developed into an exemplary Read More...
Welcome to the hydrogen age
Hydrogen fuel cells will never be a practical source of power, right? Wrong. The technology is set to take off sooner than you think. Jerry Brown, Rinaldo Brutoco and James Cusumano | October 2007 issue You may think hydrogen power is some futuristic fantasy, fit only for science-fiction writers. Read More...
First, do no harm
Hospitals are surprisingly unhealthy places. But some are making bold changes to help people heal. Kim Ridley | October 2007 issue The minute you’re admitted into the hospital, you confront a disturbing paradox: Most hospitals aren’t particularly healthy places. As a patient, you’re likely to Read More...
The real secret
Hit films like The Secret serve up a strange mix of New Age nostrums and quantum physics. Yet do they really understand what science and spirituality are all about, asks a prominent physicist? Peter Russell | October 2007 issue You create your own reality. Just “think positive,” and you’ll Read More...
Life on the inside
A bold project at San Quentin teaches prisoners to confront the feelings that drove them to crime. Tijn Touber and Helene de Puy | October 2007 issue When she comes in, the room is full of prisoners—many of them doing time for murder, many already having served 25 years or more. She’s very Read More...