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By DAVID G. ALLAN THE Thai festival calendar begins this week with the New Year soaking of Songkran, a nationwide water fight with roots in traditional Buddhist cleansing ceremonies. In recent years, the celebration has become more like St. Patrick's Day with water guns as Thai and farang…

Who’s Talking About Retirement? By JACQUES STEINBERG BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The procedure that Larry King underwent in mid-March to flush a blocked major artery — which put him at heightened risk of a stroke — also caused a few flutters among his bosses at CNN.…

By JOHN BIGGS While smart-phone makers cower in the looming shadow of the June release of the iPhone from Apple, a small cellphone service provider called Helio is introducing a device that is getting plenty of buzz. Helio’s phone, the Ocean, has two keypads. Sliding the…

Fehéredik, de még nem fehér a biztonsági szakmaHogyan védhetnék meg a biztonsági őrök a rájuk bízott értékeket, amikor sokan közülük még saját magukat sem tudják megvédeni? Az elmúlt napok vagyonőr-tragédiái emellett felvetik a kérdést: elegendő-e a civil biztonsági…

Meghalt az a biztonsági őr, aki életveszélyesen megsérült a Rudas Gyógyfürdő melletti Romkert szórakozóhely felgyújtásakor keletkezett tűzben - tájékoztatta a Budapesti Rendőr-főkapitányság ügyeletese, Kormos Endre szerdán az MTI-t. <a…

Apr 4th 2007From The Economist print editionEMI decides to embrace unprotected digital music, to Apple's delight WHEN your back is against the wall, you might as well try something unexpected. That, at least, seems to be the thinking at EMI, the world's third-biggest record company, which on…

By ARIC CHEN SEVEN years ago, the pre-eminent Chinese artist Ai Weiwei made a bold move to the outskirts of Beijing. In an area called Caochangdi Village, by the Fifth Ring Road in the city’s northeast, he designed a compound for himself, some friends and a gallery called China Art…

By CARL ZIMMER Humans are born time travelers. We may not be able to send our bodies into the past or the future, at least not yet, but we can send our minds. We can relive events that happened long ago or envision ourselves in the future. New studies suggest that the two directions of…

Philip Roth Wins Saul Bellow Prize Philip Roth is to be named today the winner of the first PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, The Associated Press reported. The $40,000 prize, to be given every two years, honors a “distinguished living American author of fiction…

By STEVEN McELROY To the average moviegoer the sight of Eddie Murphy portraying several characters in the same scene is no longer a shock. Such special-effects trickery has become commonplace: a good makeup artist, a few carefully placed cameras, some digital tweaking and presto. In live…