For many people around the world, the American dream means prosperity and progress. But how is the dream holding up these days?
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"video games make you wiser"
Marco Visscher | April 2005 issue
What is the educational value of Vice Craft, Deus X and other video games? “All skills that schools are trying to teach children, my son encounters in the video games he’s playing. Reading, math, doing research, social Read More...
Top companies look to insects for business innovations
Tijn Touber | July/Aug 2005 issue
What can a major company learn from ants? Plenty. So much, in fact, that Siemens, the German electronics giant, is shifting a part of its production process to an operational method inspired by these Read More...
The journey of a small T-shirt tells a big story
Evert Nieuwenhuis | December 2005 issue
Pietra Rivoli recalls the particularly cold February day in 1999 when she watched some 100 students demonstrating on the campus of her employer, Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Globalization was Read More...
Sure, Italians can embrace a leisurely life, but who would guess the Slow movement is taking off in northern Europe?
Carl Honore | July 2004 issue
Wagrain, a resort town nestled deep in the Autsrian Alps, moves at a slow pace. People come here to escape the hurly-burly of big city life. In the Read More...
Why good health begins with magnetism
Tijn Touber | March 2005 issue
When Russian cosmonauts first spent long periods of time on board the Mir space station, they got sick. Their symptoms indicated this was more than a simple lack of exercise, too much zero gravity or an overdose of canned Read More...
The new "creative class" could reorder economic power around the globe.
Rise of the global nomad
Jay Walljasper | May 2005 issue
We have seen the future— and it looks like Lord of the Rings. I don’t mean Middle Earth, with its endearing hobbits, vicious orcs, and really cool medieval Read More...
Authenticity is the word on everyone's tongues right now. More than a trend, it's a revolution that is transforming our work, our politics and our lives.
Jay Walljasper | July/Aug 2006 issue
Victoria Beckham, also known to the world as Posh of the Spice Girls, was giving a performance for fans in Read More...