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April 2009
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- April 30th
- In search of a perfectly balanced Riesling
- Memphis’ Super Bowl of barbecue
- Recipe of the week: Slow cooking: Back to the future
- Joe Biden’s swine flu advice
- Daniel Burnham’s Plan of Chicago
- Exhibit of the week: Inventing Marcel Duchamp
- Book of the week: Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown by Jennifer Scanlon
- Pakistan’s Taliban pushback
- Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town by Warren St. John
- Novel of the week: Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
- Author of the week: Joe Queenan
- Also of interest ... revisiting old-time charmers
- Best books … chosen by Chuck Palahniuk
- Movies on TV this week
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- FEMA’s 9/11 coloring book
- Dolly Parton’s work ethic
- Michael Caine’s advice for a happy marriage
- Eliot Spitzer’s new life
- Gossip: Terry Jones
- Once a Democrat, always a Democrat
- The significance of Twitter quitters
- 100 days of Obamanomics
- The best ... shoes for stepping into spring
- New cars: 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid
- Jack Cardiff
- Beatrice Arthur
- Bra's metal underwire deflects bullet, and more
- Reducing the federal budget by 0.0029%, and more
- Ruling on dirty words, and more
- Doing what I say, not what I do, and more
- A new take on 1 Timothy 2:9, and more
- Editor's Letter: The swine flu and stress tests
- Escorting the salamanders, and more
- Shareholders half-fire Ken Lewis
- Carrie Prejean’s breast implants
- Stage: The Miracle at Naples
- Stage: Mary Stuart
- Chrysler's road out of bankruptcy
- Where money goes to hide
- Hotel of the week: Veranda Chiang Mai, The High Resort
- Last-minute travel deals
- Getting the flavor of … Oregon’s high life, and more
- This week’s travel dream: India’s beguiling backwaters
- April 29th
- Google, orphan books, and the Justice Department
- Obama's 100 days
- Kathleen Sebelius vs. the GOP
- Microsoft chases the iPhone, and the iPhone flirts with Verizon
- What Arlen Specter's switch means
- Taking Stephen Colbert seriously
- When workers own GM and Chrysler
- Swine flu: The first death outside Mexico
- April 28th
- Arlen Specter’s party switch
- Twitter, swine flu, and panic
- Krystian Zimerman: The Polish pianist who told off America
- Carla in Madrid
- The morality of torture
- Swine fever
- Legislating nontoxic beer, and eating a finger to save a job
- Air Force One scares New York
- Containing swine flu
- A requiem for Pontiac
- Conservative media clobber the GOP
- April 27th
- Remembering Bea Arthur
- Carl Edwards’ Talladega crash
- Bafta TV awards in pictures
- The Lingerie Football League
- Swine flu: What we're up against
- Obama's first 100 days
- ‘Powder Blue’ and Jessica Biel’s career
- Mexico’s swine-flu pain, New York’s rattled nerves
- What killed Conde Nast's Portfolio?
- An Extraordinary return to form
- April 24th
- The world at a glance . . . International
- The world at a glance . . . Americas
- The world at a glance . . . United States
- ‘Torture memos’: What do they really reveal?
- For those who have everything: DriveCam
- Waterboarding Sean Hannity
- Best websites with solutions for ailing iPods
- Tip of the week: What to tip when traveling
- The best ... inexpensive netbooks
- New cars: 2009 Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG Black Series
- The last word: Hooked on mug shots
- The news at a glance
- What the experts say
- Workplace
- Stocks: Is ‘buy and hold’ holding you back?
- Issue of the week: Does Goldman have too much power?
- The scholar who pioneered ‘queer theory’
- The British bon vivant who was a major crank
- The Ivory Snow model who became a porn star
- Best books … chosen by Christopher Buckley
- Book of the week: Crazy Love by Leslie Morgan Steiner
- Nancy Pelosi and waterboarding
- As They See ’Em: A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires by Bruce Weber
- Venezuela's Chavez gives us an island, Microsoft takes a step back
- Pakistan’s existential threat
- Obama vs. credit card lenders
- Obesity: Can you be too fat to fly?
- Susan Boyle: The homely nightingale
- Surveillance: The conservative backlash
- Tea parties: A true expression of discontent?
- Susan Boyle’s makeover
- U.N. anti-racism conference: To boycott or not to boycott?
- April 23rd
- Argentina: Where Malbec shines
- Seattle’s two hottest new restaurants
- Recipe of the week: Cornish hen: A Latin take on a Nobu favorite
- Author of the week: Bret Easton Ellis
- Also of interest ... in getting outdoors
- Shepard Smith's anti-torture rant
- Best books … chosen by Leslie Cockburn
- Wit & Wisdom
- No profits for YouTube, and more
- Obama reaches out to Cuba, Venezuela
- Mississippi woman survives shot through the head
- Did torture stop another 9/11?
- The Twitter revolution
- New stem-cell research rules, and more
- Soccer coach penalizes parents, and more
- Editor's Letter: Conflict and moral clarity
- World Digital Library makes a debut, and more
- Jeremy Tyler's giant leap
- Bullet-proof bras, and blockbuster-lite summers
- Cuba’s Castro family feud
- Lawmaker embroiled in spy case
- A historic shift on CO2
- Obama’s overture to Latin America
- A suicide at Freddie Mac
- What Next? Contest: Tax Code - May 1, 2009
- Health & Science
- Obama is no apologist
- Hotel of the week: Andaz West Hollywood
- Last-minute travel deals
- Getting the flavor of … Wisconsin’s pleasant peninsula, and more
- The immigration fallacy
- This week’s travel dream: California’s ‘utopia by the sea’
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- Movies on TV this week
- Stage: Ghostwritten
- Could Craigslist have stopped the Craigslist killer?
- The Dragon’s Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan
- April 22nd
- April 21st
- Dick Cheney: Showdown with Obama
- A tax on fatter fliers, and New York health premiums overtake rent
- Israel and the U.N.’s racism summit
- Philip Markoff: Craigslist killer?
- Facebook fatigue
- Is Matt Drudge in hiding?
- Chrysler’s pay-cap dissent
- Mothers who breast-feed
- Why Meghan McCain avoids Karl Rove on Twitter
- Dan Brown’s ‘The Lost Symbol’, conspiracy theories, and Jews
- April 20th
- April 17th
- United Kingdom: Fallout from a sleazy scandal
- The world at a glance . . . International
- The world at a glance . . . Americas
- The world at a glance . . . United States
- Piracy: How should the civilized world respond?
- An opening with Iran
- Obama lifts some Cuban sanctions
- Cautious optimism on the economy
- The Bush team’s ‘torture memos’
- For those who have everything: XS-House
- Best travel-insurance websites
- Tip of the week: How to be a microwave gourmet
- The best ... floral looks
- New cars: 2009 Volkswagen CC
- YouTube takes on Hulu
- Should Carlie Christine have been fired for posing nude?
- Ashton Kutcher's Twitter win
- Mass Murder and the Square Deal
- General Growth’s mall failure
- The last word: The online market for ‘kept’ women
- Investing: Testing the waters for a return to stocks
- Issue of the week: No relief on the jobs front
- The news at a glance
- The bottom line
- The recession: Is it time to soak the rich?
- Cigarette taxes: Hitting smokers in the wallet
- CNN, Fox News, and tea parties
- Obama: The most polarizing president ever?
- April 16th
- Late-bottled Port: No smoking jacket required
- A farm-to-table utopia in Georgia
- Recipe of the week: Ubuntu: Meals from Napa’s ‘brilliant’ vegetarian restaurant
- Also of interest ... in novels on contemporary life
- Roxana Saberi's treatment in Iran
- Author of the week: Christopher Buckley
- Best books … chosen by James Toback
- Obama and tomorrow's taxes
- Wit & Wisdom
- Cheerleaders vs. Playboy model Carlie Christine
- Russian survives two five-story plunges, and more
- Protesting for profit
- Drug offenders and race, and more
- Making lemonade out of lemons, and more
- Saved worker demands compensation for lunch hour, and more
- Muslims wait for U.S. change
- Ayn Rand: Capitalism’s enduring crusader
- Who's the divider, Bush or Obama?
- Editor's Letter: Why pundits misjudge
- A $9,000 library fine, and more
- Burger King’s Texican mess, and American Apparel’s Woody Allen sex slam
- Obama’s Latin American debut
- Health & Science
- Rick Perry’s Texas rebellion
- What the experts say
- Workplace
- Book of the week: Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud edited by Robert Pinsky
- Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America by Beryl Satter
- Russell Dunham
- Dave Arneson
- Mark Fidrych
- Timothy Geithner’s stress test
- What Next? Contest: Astronauts - Apr. 24, 2009
- Movies on TV this week
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- Sarah Palin's Pavlovian response
- Last-minute travel deals
- Hotel of the week: Iglu-Dorf, Zermatt, Switzerland
- Getting the flavor of … Florida’s coast by catamaran, and more
- This week’s travel dream: Cambodia’s long-lost city
- Stage: Rock of Ages
- April 15th
- April 14th
- April 13th
- April 10th
- Iowa: Gay marriage in the heartland
- Children: Do they make people happy?
- Obama bashing: Are his critics unhinged?
- Gun massacres: Taking aim at the innocent
- Africa: The enduring power of witchcraft
- Germany: Paying people to buy cars is absurd
- The world at a glance . . . International
- The world at a glance . . . Americas
- The world at a glance . . . Europe
- The world at a glance . . . United States
- Obama’s trip: Is Europe’s approval meaningful?
- Closing in on a $3.5 trillion budget
- Obama’s surprise visit to Iraq
- North Korea’s nuclear challenge
- Herman Franks
- Maurice Jarre
- Raúl Alfonsín
- Issue of the week: Uproar over an accounting change
- College costs: A desperate search for funding
- Workplace
- What the experts say
- The bottom line
- The news at a glance
- April 9th
- Hotel of the week: The Merrion, Dublin
- Last-minute travel deals
- Getting the flavor of … A California desert in bloom, and more
- This week’s travel dream: A field trip back in time
- France’s forgotten Burgundies
- Philly finally becomes a ‘five-cow’ town
- Recipe of the week: The ‘perfect’ excuse for dining in
- ‘Anvil! The Story of Anvil’ vs. ‘Spinal Tap’
- Exhibit of the week: The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989
- The gay-marriage war hits TV
- Also of interest ... in revisionist thinking
- Best books … chosen by Jay McInerney
- Rush Limbaugh’s conflicted cousin
- The climber who won’t quit
- Pentagon spending shake-up
- The Somali pirates' wrong move
- The perils of breaking dog-walking rules, and more
- Editor's Letter: The end of voice mail?
- Flickr's digital detectives, and more
- Housing: Are the prices right?
- Kosher pet food for Passover, and a double standard for fat bosses
- Body fat that keeps us thin
- Health & Science
- Is ‘Observe and Report’ too dark?
- The last word: The man who erased himself
- The Obama seder
- Wit & Wisdom
- Digital information's explosive growth, and more
- Colorado man coughs up 1-inch nail, and more
- For those who have everything: Marie Garnier’s Funerary urn
- Best innovative new websites
- Tip of the week: How to beat an IRS audit
- The best ... eco-friendly toys
- The Pakistan Gamble
- Book of the week: Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde by Jeff Guinn
- Downgrading Warren Buffett
- When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
- What Next? Contest: Canada - Apr. 17, 2009
- The Obamas take Europe
- The rise of the pilotless planes
- Show of the week: Grey Gardens
- Movies on TV this week
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- April 8th
- April 7th
- Is America a Christian nation?
- Selling the good ol’ days, and earning last year’s salary
- Sarah Palin vs. Levi Johnston
- Obama: Uniter or divider?
- Madonna’s contentious adoption
- Can Segway save GM?
- Is Chia Obama racist?
- Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson’s breakup
- Michael Jordan's reluctant step into the Hall of Fame
- April 6th
- April 3rd
- Canada: A slogan not worth the money
- Switzerland: Shamed into accepting an Iraqi refugee
- The world at a glance . . . International
- The world at a glance . . . Americas
- Obama’s international debut
- Clinton mends fences in Mexico
- Personal Web surfing boosts productivity, and unemployment hits 8.5%
- Book of the week: How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn’t Have to Be Forever by Jack Horner and James Gorman
- Coffee: The new energy drink
- The Sisters Antipodes: A Memoir by Jane Alison
- A deadline for the auto industry
- Will Google buy Twitter?
- G-20: Obama’s global debut
- Scoring the G-20 summit
- The last word: The true nature of mourning
- The bottom line
- Issue of the week: A regulatory revolution
- The stock market: Will the bear reawaken?
- Health & Science
- ‘Sexting’: When a fad is a felony
- Three Mile Island: The fallout, 30 years later
- Notre Dame: Obama’s controversial invitation
- Obama: Is he overexposed?
- Gay marriage and the Iowa Supreme Court
- April 2nd
- Author of the week: Anne LeClaire
- Also of interest ... in our new computer world
- Best books … chosen by Tom Werner
- Wit & Wisdom
- Abortions and vasectomies increase
- Shared blame for Mexico’s drug problem
- The cult of Robert Pattinson
- Fay Weldon’s near-death experience
- Decision in Minnesota race, and more
- Visualizing world peace, and more
- Ice cream fundraiser nixed by "wellness policy"
- Mexico’s brutal drug war
- Stephen Colbert mocks Glenn Beck
- Crossing the Atlantic by rowboat, and more
- Leaking ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine,’ and passing the Morton Salt
- The world at a glance . . . Europe
- New York’s Obama referendum
- The world at a glance . . . United States
- The dumbest guy in Pennsylvania, and more
- The news at a glance
- What the experts say
- Obama’s iPod for the Queen
- Workplace
- For those who have everything: Sleeptracker Pro
- Best websites for do-it-yourself loans
- Tip of the week: How to have grace under pressure
- The best ... looks in Lucite
- New cars: 2009 Toyota Land Cruiser
- New on DVD
- Dueling bailouts: Banks vs. cars
- John Hope Franklin
- Last-minute travel deals
- Retreats: From Miami to the heart of the Himalayas
- French craft beers: Who knew?
- An old Hollywood star gets a makeover
- Recipe of the week: Chicken-fried steak: The ultimate all-American meal
- The Week’s guide to what’s worth watching
- Stage: West Side Story
- Exhibit of the week: Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice
- What Next? Contest: Wagoner - Apr. 10, 2009
- April 1st
- Genetics and losing virginity
- China’s beer-war victory, and HP’s Google conversion
- Al Franken: Slow-motion victory?
- ‘Bruno’: Why Sacha Baron Cohen got an NC-17 rating
- What the G-20 summit can do
- Abortion, Notre Dame, and Obama
- The recession that saved home cooking
- The leaked version of ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’
- Ted Stevens gets a break
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