This week we discuss Nadal’s model turn for Spain’s Vanity Fair, Andy Murray’s video game habit, and Kim Clijsters new baby. Also, see footage of Andy Roddick’s drunk dancing and Victoria Azarenka’s “twerking.”
At stake is Europe's future economic and political sustainability, since the next German government will be charged with guiding the currency union out of crisis, explains this Issue Guide.
The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations have just completed their 19th round, and there is talk now that they are nearing the "end game" and a deal might be reached by the end of the year. However, there are reportedly still many unresolved issues and a fair amount of work ahead. Is a 2013 completion date realistic? If not, when will the TPP countries reach agreement? And if they do, what will the U.S. Congress think about the deal? Please join us for a discussion of these and other issues related to the TPP.
With so many baby products on the market, deciding what you need to buy to help look after your little one can be daunting. Charlotte Philby gives you some ideas
This week's Featured Course is deep into southern Maryland near the shores of the Potomac River - Swan Point Yacht & Country Club
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Stamp collecting is usually seen as a hobby for old nerds, but some young investors in China are laughing all the way to the bank with their gains on Asian stamps. The WSJ's Jason Chow explains what makes an adhesive bit of paper worth as much as $1.2 million.
I stopped working on the Windlass installation in June, when it became too hot for all but absolutely necessary repairs. Finally this week I finished running the power cables from the cockpit locker to the chain locker. The windlass is now operational. I still need to modify the hatch on the anchor locker to clear the windlass, and a lot of clean up tasks.
Due to the tiny nature of terrariums, the perception tends to be that creating one of these itty-bitty worlds is simple. Geiger - a former Bay Area resident who moved to Reno with her family - starts by introducing materials, so readers know their soils from their mosses and their cacti from tropical plants and tillandsias. Beyond a wealth of easy-to-follow fundamentals, readers are treated to a creative assortment of vistas in vessels ranging from old whiskey bottles to club soda bottles, discarded light fixtures, light bulbs and Mason jars.
Vicenzo and Maria Dito and their teenage daughter Rosetta left Calabria - the toe of the Italian boot - in 1974, knowing life in America would mean trade-offs: greater economic opportunities than in their isolated, hardscrabble homeland, but less for their kitchen in American stores. The Ditos couldn't bring along their dairy goats, vineyards or olive trees, but they took the seeds of their tomatoes and peppers, beans, greens and herbs. Some of those heirloom varieties are now available from Franchi Seeds; back then... Читать дальше...
A look inside the 9 1/2-foot-wide space that is known as Manhattan's narrowest townhouse. George Gund IV owns the 999-square-foot home.
Not long ago, it seemed like every literary author was doing a book about the apocalypse, possibly involving zombies or werewolves. But now, there's a new wave of beloved authors tackling our bewilderment with the internet-dominated world we live in.
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America's Longest War is a new documentary from the Reason Foundation about the federal government's 40-year war on drugs. It chronicles the history of drug prohibition from President Nixon's declaration of war in 1971 through President Obama's broken promises on medical marijuana. After more than $1 trillion taxpayer dollars and thousands of paramilitary raids on American homes and drug arrests each year, the prisons are overflowing with drug offenders.
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