What a difference four years have made. When the cast of The Big Bang Theory first appeared at PaleyFest in 2009, their sitcom wasn’t even among the top-40 rated shows in the United States
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Afghan’s Amazing DIY Internet From Trash
In the Afghan city of Jalalabad, aid workers mostly from the United States working on a project called FabFi. FabFi is a high-tech but low-budget project that aims to bring high-speed internet to world’s most remote places. Douglas Rushkoff has championed the idea that the current corporate-controlled internet is far from the open commons we […]
John Q.: How Real Is This Horror Story?
As a rule, it’s not a good idea to pick up a gun, take over the emergency room of a hospital and threaten to kill your family’s cardiac surgeon. But that’s what Denzel Washington’s character does in the film John Q.
A Tale of Two Indias
There are few finer views of the new India than from the cliff-top terrace of manufacturing magnates Parmeshwar and Adi Godrej. At night on the horizon, like a diamond necklace, streetlights trace a shoreline curve past the high-rise bank offices and apartment blocks of downtown Bombay, skirt the bars, gyms and boutiques of Marine Drive, and encircle Chowpatty Beach, ending in the rocky surf below
The Teenagers Who Are Making Girls Scout Cookies Better for the Planet
For Madison Vorva and Rhiannon Tomtishen, it all began with orangutans.
Is Putting a Cell Phone in Your Pocket a Health Risk?
We are a nation grown numb to the seemingly endless fine print that accompanies our purchases.
What Would Jesus Do: Florida Church to Pray Sunday for Osama bin Laden
The mass this Sunday at Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church in West Palm Beach will be offered on behalf of five people. Only one of them is a recently deceased head of a global terrorist network.
Harold Camping Says It’s the End of the World. He’s Said that Before
In a comfortable office, Bible placed firmly atop his lap, 89-year-old Harold Camping is waxing with utter certainty about the end of the world.
Vatican Gets Tough on Child Abuse, but Not Tough Enough
When the Vatican issued a letter on Monday ordering bishops across the world to draw up tough guidelines for dealing with priests who rape or molest children, it addressed only half the scandal that has been rocking the Catholic Church. To be sure, when it comes to the abusive clerics, the Vatican’s new edict takes a firm stand, obliging local bishops to cooperate with local law enforcement in reporting sex crimes and recommending that policies be put in place to exclude accused priests from public ministry if they pose a continued danger to minors or could be a “cause of scandal for the community.” But what Monday’s letter fails to do is put in place any sanctions on the bishops who oversee those clerics, should they fail to follow through with the recommendations
The Man with the Golden Gut
From his office on the 38th floor of the ABC building in Manhattan, Fred Silverman can peer into the office of CBS President Robert Wussler, just across 53rd Street. Occasionally the two men wave at each other from the heights, like rival aviators saluting before a dogfight