| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | Some of the most illuminating works about the current crop of candidates have been on bookshelves for years: | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | U.S. News Chief White House Correspondent Kenneth T. Walsh, author of four books on the presidency, lists his all-time favorites: | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | It seems like just another sleepy summer in Washington. Members of Congress were eager to begin their monthlong recess. Many in the bureaucracy, the lobbying corps, and the media cleared out for some R&R. And President Bush was checking Internet reports on the weather in Crawford, Texas, as he prepared to begin his annual August vacation, chopping cedar and mountain biking at his ranch. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | RAMADI—Once the most dangerous place in Iraq, the self-proclaimed capital of the Sunni insurgency, Ramadi has become a bustling, largely peaceful city where residents are starting to repair the damage of nearly four years of heavy fighting. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | If there is one thing President Bush isn't these days, it's shy about confronting Congress. He has held firm on his claims of executive privilege in the investigation of U.S. attorney firings, and made it clear that he believes policy on Iraqis up to him, not Capitol Hill. But his confrontational approach reaches further, into nearly every policy nook in Washington. In the past month or so, Bush has threatened to veto a plan to expand children's health insurance, a bill funding Army Corps water projects, a law on farm policy that passed the House, and almost all of the spending bills that Congress is supposed to pass by October. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | The flight from Panama had just landed at Miami International Airport last December when Christian Sapsizian, a French citizen, got an abrupt surprise. Instead of catching his next flight home to Paris, the 60-year-old former Alcatel executive was arrested. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | It's the luxury edition of the American exurb: hilltop scenery, new-money mansions, horses galloping behind split-rail fences. About 25 miles west of Washington, D.C., Loudoun County boasts a median household income of $98,483, twice the national rate. It's the kind of place beloved by D.C. power brokers, whose sprawling estates serve as monuments to the American dream. These days, however, Loudoun County is also at the forefront of a very different if no less American vision: the commune. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | Back in the early '90s, when Bill Clinton was campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination, he created a stir. Not the one about his relationship with Gennifer Flowers, the one about his relationship with his wife. "Buy one," he told us, "get one free." Mostly, we were horrified. We're not electing the spouse, we huffed. Who does Hillary Rodham Clinton think she is? She's not the candidate; enough about her. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | Backstage at Lincoln Center, stagehand Adam Lewis was multitasking. Fiddling with a soundboard, he was also trying to snag autographs from his new favorite food celebrities, waiting to be honored at the 20th anniversary James Beard Foundation Awards ceremony. "This is going right up there next to BeyoncÃnd Metallica," said Lewis, clutching his official program, covered with signatures from chefs like Bobby Flay of the Food Network's Boy Meets Grill. "These people are on the money." | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | It may be summertime, but the living isn't easy—not for weary workers whose last vacation is a distant memory. According to one recent study, 1 in 4 employees in the United States doesn't get any paid vacation. Almost half don't take even a week off every year. Economists estimate that the average American works one more month per year today than in 1976. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | Six decades ago, Harvard physician Sidney Farber discovered to his disappointment that a synthetic form of the vitamin folate called folic acid, recently shown to prevent cancers in lab animals, actually accelerated the disease in children dying of leukemia. Making good of his inconvenient discovery, Farber went on to develop folate-blocking compounds that became some of the world's first chemotherapies. Separately, other scientists discovered folic acid's tremendous power for good—it prevents birth defects such as spina bifida—and launched a movement to make sure people get enough. But echoes of those early findings have been reverberating of late: New research links widespread use to a surprising rise in colon cancer and perhaps other tumors. | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | When Jane Fowler hit the dating scene after her 23-year marriage ended in divorce, she didn't think she needed to use protection when she had sex. "I wasn't worried about getting pregnant," says the 72-year-old retired journalist from Kansas City, Mo., "and the man I was seeing was an old friend, also recently divorced." So she was shocked to learn, after having a routine blood test in 1991, that she'd been infected with HIV, a nightmare she hopes to help others avoid by lecturing at senior health fairs. "My mantra is that you never know the sexual history of anyone but yourself." | | More information |
| Sun, 5 Aug 2007 | | Manufacturers of everything from running shoes to deodorants design products specifically for women. One of the latest entries: the first artificial joint created for-and heavily advertised to-females. Doctors say it's too soon to tell whether the Gender Knee represents a giant leap for womankind or if it gives its maker, Zimmer Holdings Inc., a leg up in the market. | | More information |
| Fri, 3 Aug 2007 | | Clarified 8/3/07: An earlier version of this story misspelled inulin. It also referred to Lori Hoolihan of the Dairy Council of California by a surname she no longer uses. | | More information |
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