Business & Technology
An Ad on Every Block?
As you walk down the street — ping — another ad arrives on your phone. But the visionaries promise this won’t drive you mad.
The Joy Economy
How do those tiny basement comedy clubs stay afloat, when even the ten-dollar DVD meccas are closing?
A Speech Coach to the Stars
Sam Chwat helped Julia Roberts and Robert De Niro. He also neutralizes unfortunate accents.
Off the Bottle?
Will cost-cutting, planet-saving consumers do in the beleaguered bottled-water industry?
Fuelish Choices
Before you agree that liquid coal is the next great solution to U.S. dependence on foreign oil, take a drive through Appalachian coal country.
Riding (Uphill) to Prosperity
Bike tourism has helped lift the old mining town of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, from its long depression. Too bad not everybody’s happy about that
Nobody Dies Here (video)
The story of an idyllic little hospital, where the patients are undemanding and healing is a family affair
Their Boots of Vegan Pleather
Surprise! Grit capital New York is becoming a global mecca for those who eat, and live, animal-free
Getting Smart About the Green
Through financial crisis, young African-American investors try to focus
Maybe You’ll Never Be an Investment Banker
Bad news and survival strategies for people graduating in tough times
High Soy Prices Idling Biodiesel Plants
Farmers are happy, but it’s a blow for green energy
Will Exercise Video Games Get Kids Off the Couch?
New Nintendo Wii sports and fitness games fuel a fervid debate
Salam, My Name Is: Not That Hard to Pronounce
Sassy Muslim-themed T-shirts protest, poke fun and show pride
That So Smooth, Too Smooth Sound
DJs abandoning vinyl records for computer software agree it’s practical–just not quite as wonderful
The Food Savers
They don’t trust the supermarkets, the global markets or their own purchasing power, for that matter. They may be right.
Helping Booklovers Unite
People living far from their literary friends now have a way to read, and discuss, books together in real time
