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The View from Here

Shaggy Boris Story

A prime minister without a portfolio, pen, or a prepared speech

Should the Rich Be Allowed to Buy the Best Genes?

A letter from Quebec City and parts west …

The Accused

Norman Stone

Waspish, iconoclastic British historian was a man of the right in a field of mostly left-wingers

Small Fortune, No Cookie

Head Case

Our gadget columnist tests a brain-enhancement device

As the World Melts …

Second-Class Goopsters

Thanks to Goop for Men, now the average guy can feel just as bad about his physical self as women do

It Was a Great Week for …

Prince Hal

Sexagenarian and the City

Candace Bushnell re-invents her invented self

Seoul Cycle

South Korea

A French Dressing-Down

France

The Great Speed Forward

With the world’s fastest trains, China leaves the world in the dust

Bruce Lee’s Home Gets Roundhouse Kick

China

It Was a Bad Week for …

Ferry Tale

At 120 m.p.h., the AirFish 8 flies like an engine-powered albatross

Michael Maor

Holocaust survivor who joined the Mossad and helped convict Adolf Eichmann

The View from Here

Silicon Island

The Google elite jet-ski their way to saving the Earth

Paint Chips

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Robot

The Monster in Their Midst

Jean-Claude Romand, whose horrific murder spree shook France in 1993, has just left prison for a monastery. How can you tell whether a master of deception has really changed?

It’s Just Nyet Cricket

Russia