Wednesday, January 19, 2011

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The New York Times Magazine

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Can Europe Be Saved?

Is there any way to save Europe’s democracies from sinking together in the ill-conceived currency union?

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Europe’s Odd Couple

One thing is clear in the relationship between Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel: Ultimately, she holds the cards.

The Will to Drill

Below the ocean floor off Angola, modern-day wildcatters have pinpointed what they think is a major oil field. But they have to spend $100 million to see if they’re right.

Special Issues

Interactive Feature: The Lives They Lived

A collection of narratives that celebrate lives.

Interactive Feature: The 10th Annual Year in Ideas

A high-to-low, silly-to-serious selection of ingenuity and innovation.

Video Feature: Video Gallery: 14 Actors Acting

This year’s great performers striking some of the classic attitudes of cinema.

Sunday Puzzles

You can now download and print the popular variety puzzles from the Sunday magazine free online. Look below for links to this week’s puzzle as well as answers to last week’s.

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The White House Looks for Work

Obama’s economic team is acutely aware that everything the administration dreams of accomplishing rides on vanquishing unemployment. And doing it on the cheap. Ideas, anyone?

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Portraits From a Job-Starved City

A photographic tour (with audio interviews) through the stores, factories and offices of Rockford, Ill., where unemployment reached nearly 16 percent last summer.

Well Blog | Phys Ed

Brains and Brawn

Does weight lifting make you smarter?

The Way We Live Now

No More Mrs. Nice Mom

Is the iron hand of Chinese parenting the future for Americans raising their kids?

Food

Field Report: Nut Worth

Hazelnut farming can be more rewarding when the whole family pitches in.

Consumed

Branding Transparency

Does WikiLeaks need a better visual image?

On Language

Auto(in)correct

How smartphones are making us look dumb.

The Ethicist

Tragic Artifacts

Antitheft advice; a tipping tip.

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Lives

The Crazy Lady Upstairs

When your eccentric California neighbor is actually very disturbed.

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The Medium

Watch Me, Read Me

The Vook is to video reading what the Kindle is to reading reading.

Questions for Oscar B. Goodman

What Happens in Vegas

Despite the financial woes, Sin City’s mayor tries to keep the good times rolling.

From the Archive

How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?

The Great Recession was the result not only of lax regulation in Washington and reckless risk-taking on Wall Street but also of faulty theorizing in academia.

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