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Most women's clubs have been simply men's sticks with lighter shafts attached or done up in pretty colors. But when I tried out Callaway's new irons at my local range, I was immediately struck by how different they looked and felt. Instead of a thin base, the i-brid, as it's called, has a broader, flat sole that can sit on the turf only one way--the right way, at the angle that virtually guarantees the ball will get into the air. "With the i-brid, you make a regular swing, and you get loft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swinging for Female Golfers | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...assets--but as satellite accounts, not part of GDP. Says Katharine Abraham, a University of Maryland professor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics chief, who headed up that effort: "One problem with these expanded measures--why I wouldn't want to see them replace GDP--is the information you base them on is too tenuous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Ditch the GDP | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...BASE OF SUPPORT Looking for votes beyond race and gender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PA. Gets its Political Close-Up | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...seriously his committeeman role. "I brought in the best division in the city," he would tell us, an insistent pride in his declaration. We grandkids would say that was chiefly because the old neighborhood had become almost entirely African American, already at that point the party's most reliable base. The exceptions were Grandpop and the guy next door, whom he described as "Nice fella ... Polish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philly Politicos Kick it Old-School | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

With the excuse of fighting infectious diseases, the regime launched Operation Murambatsvina in 2005, clearing slums across the nation under the slogan of “driving out the rubbish.” In effect, it was mainly targeted against the support base of the Movement for Democratic Change, a party that eventually challenged Mugabe in the March 29 elections...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: Colonialism Redux | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

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