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The Seven Commandments of Watching Football in a Sports Bar

By Peter Schrager

A guide to watching football in public. Plus: how to win your fantasy playoffs, and why this will be the worst Super Bowl party season in eight years.

12/4/2008, 7:45 AM

How Sean Penn Finally Assassinated Harvey Milk

By Chris Jones

In Milk, Sean Penn and Gus Van Sant dignify the pathetic death of an important man

12/4/2008, 7:30 AM

Why the Real Hundred-Dollar Laptop Is a Cell Phone

By Doug Cantor

Berkeley computer scientist Tapan Parikh has lapped the competition in Third World record-keeping -- and the economic implications back home are endless

12/4/2008, 7:15 AM

27 Very Different (but Very Good) Holiday Gifts for Your Lovely Wife

We've scouted the racks and consulted some of our favorite women to turn up these practical presents for all types of wives. Even yours.

12/4/2008, 7:00 AM

Bill Richardson: What I've Learned

By Cal Fussman

The just-tapped Secretary of Commerce shares intimate new stories on how Barack Obama saved his ass before he became his boss, Saddam Hussein's guile, Bush's charm, racial politics and more.

12/3/2008, 11:00 AM

The Number Cruncher Who Knows How to End Terrorism

By John H. Richardson

The question was so obvious, nobody thought to ask it: How does terrorism end? After the attacks in Mumbai one week ago, it bears answering right now.

12/3/2008, 7:50 AM

What Obama's 27-Year-Old Speechwriter Learned from George W. Bush

By Mark Warren

Jon Favreau got out of college just in time to make history. But the kid writing all those pretty speeches has some surprising influences.

12/3/2008, 7:45 AM

Why Algae Will Save Us From the Energy Crisis

By Meryl Rothstein

It's plentiful, it's homegrown, and it could help clean up the environment while powering America -- every light, car, plane, and factory in it.

12/3/2008, 7:30 AM

Sunrise Earth: The Endorsement

By Ross McCammon

DVR the show and watch it when you get home from work. With a drink. It will relax and reset you. Because it's an antidote to everything else happening on TV and that happened to you that day.

12/3/2008, 7:15 AM

Calvin Klein's Crystal Ball on Classic Men's Style

CK creative director Italo Zucchelli looks to the future with four new takes on classics.

12/3/2008, 7:10 AM

Six Questions on the Future of Men's Style for CK Guru Italo Zucchelli

Italo Zucchelli is one of the most innovative minds in the fashion business. Here, on the occasion of his brand's 40th anniversary, he talks.

12/3/2008, 7:05 AM

Marky Mark and the Undie Bunch: A Brief History of Calvin Klein

Legendary ads, superstar models in the making and non-stop innovation -- looking back at the first forty years of CK.

12/3/2008, 7:00 AM

Is 2009 the Year We All Get Health Care?

By John H. Richardson

Nearly fifteen years after the Clintons tackled America's health care crisis, a new group called Health Care for America Now may just tip the tide, scaring the bejeezus out of Conservatives.

12/2/2008, 7:45 AM

The Mad Scientist Bringing Back the Dead.... Really.

By Tom Junod

Bubbling cauldrons, toxic substances, insane and dangerous ideas -- whatever happened to that kind of science? Take a look at Mark Roth in his lab in Seattle. It's mad. It's heroic. It's science the way it's supposed to be.

12/2/2008, 7:30 AM

The YouTube Star Who's Crazy in a Funny Way

By Nicole Tourtelot

Reggie Watts began his career as a singer in various bands in the early 1990s. Then he started being himself. Crazy. Absurd. And the people laughed. They're still laughing.

12/2/2008, 7:20 AM