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By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD Fifty years ago, before most people living today were born, the beep-beep-beep of Sputnik was heard round the world. It was the sound of wonder and foreboding. Nothing would ever be quite the same again — in geopolitics, in science and technology, in everyday…

By JOHN SCHWARTZ Fifty years of spaceflight have taken people to the Moon and have sent unmanned vehicles zipping to the fringes of the solar system. What could the next 50 years bring? Much more, or potentially not much more. Government-financed space travel could stall in the face of…

The $100,000 price of the Tesla Roadster is well beyond the budget of even most sports car buyers. By LAWRENCE ULRICH ELECTRIC cars are the future. That, at least, is the message automakers are sending to consumers as they trumpet big plans for cars that can bypass the gas pump. Of…

Sep 20th 2007 From The Economist print editionWhat the credit crunch means for bonuses AFP  Get article background“DEAR Valued Bloomberg User,” began an e-mail sent out recently by the information provider to the universe’s masters. “This is...to remind you that we can…

Enclave replaces three discontinued Buick models. By CHRISTOPHER JENSEN ERROL, N.H. WE are hunting moose in northern New Hampshire, a predatory band of three adults and two children in the new Buick Enclave. Nicely equipped in all other respects, our 2008 Enclave lacks a gun rack, but…

Illustration by David G. Klein By N. GREGORY MANKIW IN the debate over global climate change, there is a yawning gap that needs to be bridged. The gap is not between environmentalists and industrialists, or between Democrats and Republicans. It is between policy wonks and political…

Vivienne Flesher By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM THE kiss you share with the exquisite stranger is electric, deep and seemingly endless — that is until you open an eye and see drool on your pillow. If only you could have slept long enough to consummate the seduction. Then again, you had no…

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Sep 6th 2007 | NEW YORK From The Economist print edition Illustration by David Simonds The debate about the social responsibilities of companies is heating up again IF YOU believe what they say about themselves, big companies have never been better citizens. In the past decade,…

Sep 12th 2007 From Economist.com THE costliest place in the world to get high is Japan, according to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime's annual World Drug Report. The street price of a gram of cannabis weed was $58.30 in 2005, over twice as much as in the next most expensive nation,…