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Often the simplest questions have the most interesting answers. A few winters back, I was sitting over a cup of instant hot chocolate in Reykjavík, Iceland, with a fellow American, Eric Weiner. He was in town researching a book about happiness, trying to get to the bottom of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happy Trails | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

At times, Weiner's gruffness comes off as a strained attempt to stay in the kind of character his book's structure requires, but his skill as a narrator outweighs this mannerism. Geography may not always offer the elegant packaging of virtuoso travel writers like Paul Theroux or Jan Morris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happy Trails | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

A tearful Alan Greenspan confessed yesterday that he never was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, as he alleged in his best-selling autobiography, Irrational Exuberance, published last fall. The book's melodramatic descriptions of gray-haired men sitting around large conference tables talking about things like "libor" and "basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Old Story | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

What's your idea of the afterlife? -Luan Mai, Santa Clara, Calif.I don't think we can imagine what it is like to be fully united with God in his kingdom, but we can have great expectation and hope. I don't think it is a little angel with a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Anne Rice | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

As for Barack Obama, it will not be sufficient to simply play out the math, continuing to take his share of delegates as he loses high-profile contests. He may win the nomination that way, but he will lose his rationale: that he represents a dramatic, tidal wave of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Race Goes On | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

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