Why there should be video games in every classroom.
Marco Visscher | December 2007 issue
Invariably, the people who criticize video and computer games grew up without Nintendo, PlayStation or Atari. The sometimes-heated discussions about games are a typical example of a generational conflict, Will Read More...
How just being yourself can improve your health.
David Servan-Schreiber | December 2007 issue
Celeste is unhappily married, but rather than talk to her husband, she tries to act as though everything’s fine. Jack is aware that the plant he manages is pumping out toxic waste and he’s doing what Read More...
Banks should not be driven only by the desire to be ever more profitable.
Amy Domini| December 2007 issue
Last year, when Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize, millions of people around the world learned of the miracles that banks serving the poor could deliver. It was a well-deserved honour Read More...
Moniek Zegers says we shouldn't be giving more but taking less.
Marco Visscher | December 2007 issue
Charity is in. Bill Clinton has written a bestseller about it and rock stars are organizing concerts. But Moniek Zegers, co-founder of the recently launched Dutch Comité tegen Goede Doelen Gekte Read More...
The Renaissance master pioneered ideas we now think of as the cutting edge in science and design. An exclusive excerpt from Fritjof Capra's new book, The Science of Leonardo.
Fritjof Capra | November 2007 issue
In Western intellectual history, the Renaissance—a period stretching from the Read More...
How a former Taliban fighter learned that teaching young girls is the best way to help impoverished, war-torn Kashmir.
Karin Ronnow | November 2007 issue
How a former Taliban fighter learned that teaching young girls is the best way to help impoverished, war-torn Kashmir.
Going from Taliban Read More...
An organic food pioneer company rallies opposition to genetic engineering.
Ursula Sautter | November 2007 issue
Milling around a ramshackle VW bus painted in rainbow colours that sports the slogan “Biomobil,” a steadily growing crowd is forming at the onion-spire-topped St. Martinus church of Read More...
If a book can "change your life," a bookstore can utterly transform it. A story on how the bookstore Shakespeare and Company in Paris changed one man's life.
Jeremy Mercer | November 2007 issue
One of the more romantic literary notions is that a book can change a person’s life. Pulitzer Read More...
How Mama Zula saved 100 people's lives
Lekha Singh | November 2007 issue
“It was a Friday,” she says, “it was sometime in April.” The militiamen were burning houses. One neighbour’s house after another was going up in flames. The men, women and children who rushed out of the burning Read More...
November 2007 issue
In 1974, Sam (not his real name)
joined the Royal Ulster Constabulary, now known as the Police Service of Northern Ireland. The death toll exacted by The Troubles was being ratcheted up daily, topping 1,000 in April of that year. It would double and then triple over the course Read More...