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The World: A Time to Rethink AIDS’s Grip

Finally, the disease is acting like other epidemics. That's a good sign.

Ideas & Trends: Freud Is Widely Taught at Universities, Except in the Psychology Department

If you want to learn about psychoanalysis at the nation's top universities, one of the last places to look may be the psychology department.

Few Moved the Scenery, or Even Chewed It

A posthumous review of 'The Great Broadway Stagehands Strike of '07.-

Peace? Sure, I’ll See What I Can Do

US presidents heed the Mideast siren song, but dance to different tunes.

Where the White-Tail Roam

The woods are alive these days with the sounds of deer hunters.

Putting a Price on a Wrongful Conviction

DNA is restoring freedom. But what's the value of lost years?

How the Filibuster Became the Rule

The tactic is being used more frequently in the Senate than at any time in history.

Where Living in Fear Starts at the Top

Last week Lebanon appeared closer to resolving a crisis over choosing a new president. So why do its politicians see assassination as a real threat?

Correction: When a Mountaintop Might as Well Have Been the Moon

An article on Jan. 13 about the conquest of Mount Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary, who died Jan. 11, and the explorations of space that followed it rendered incorrectly the initial report of trouble aboard the lunar mission Apollo 13. In a recording made available by NASA’s Johnson Space Center, the astronaut John Swigert Jr. alerts mission headquarters to the explosion in the rear of the spacecraft with the words, 'O.K., Houston, we’ve had a problem here,” not 'Houston, we’ve got a problem.” (About 15 seconds later, after Houston asked for the message to be repeated, another astronaut, the mission commander, James Lovell, confirms: 'Uh, Houston, we’ve had a problem.”).