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other magazinesOther MagazinesSummaries of what's in Time, Newsweek, etc.1NA=1154&NC=1286&DI=4098&PS=58294&PI=7315OtherMagsfalsefalseNewsspacernotembeddedother magazinesGirl PowerSonia SmithfalseThe New York Times Magazine on how women's rights are key to fighting poverty.noGirl PowerWhat's new in Time, Texas Monthly, and Mother Jones.nospacer100122New York Times falsefalse1/123125/122945/2207841/2224296/090822_OMAG_nytm.jpghttp://img.slate.com/mediayesStandardImage1/123125/122945/2207841/2224296/090822_OMAG_nytm.jpg100122http://img.slate.com/mediafalse2009112773318AMFridayNovNovember711/27/2009 12:33:18 PM6339490399823725572009112773318AMFridayNovNovember711/27/2009 12:33:18 PM6339490399823725572009112773318AMFridayNovNovember711/27/2009 12:33:18 PM633949039982372557false200982152852PMFridayAugAugust178/21/2009 9:28:52 PM633864725320000000200982152852PMFridayAugAugust178/21/2009 9:28:52 PM633864725320000000New York Times Magazine, Aug. 23The cover story, penned by husband-and-wife team Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, argues that empowering women is key to stamping out global poverty and extremism. When women work, they are more likely than men to spend their paychecks in ways that will benefit their families—on food and education instead of alcohol. "If poor families spent only as much on educating their children as they do on beer and prostitutes, there would be a breakthrough in the prospects of poor countries," they write. Access to education, iodized salt, microcredit loans, and maternal health care are inexpensive ways that women's welfare can be improved worldwide. … Dexter Filkins returns to Mirwais Mena School for Girls outside Kandahar, the site of acid attacks against 15 girls and teachers last November. After Filkins' initial story on the attacks ran in January, he collected more than $25,000 in donations for the injured girls and the school. Much of the money was to be used to send the subject of his January story, 17-year-old Shamsia Hussein, to the United States to repair her facial scars, but threats from the Taliban scared her family into not sending her.truenotochyperlinkno200982155455PMFridayAugAugust178/21/2009 9:54:55 PM633864740950000000200982155455PMFridayAugAugust178/21/2009 9:54:55 PM633864740950000000other magazinesManhattan MediciSonia SmithfalseThe New Yorker on Michael Bloomberg's unopposed election bid.noManhattan MediciWhat's new in New York, Newsweek, and the Weekly Standard.nospacer100137The New Yorkerfalsefalse1/123125/122945/2207841/2224296/090818_OMAG_nyer.jpghttp://img.slate.com/mediayesStandardImage1/123125/122945/2207841/2224296/090818_OMAG_nyer.jpg100137http://img.slate.com/mediafalse2009112773317AMFridayNovNovember711/27/2009 12:33:17 PM6339490399775287452009112773317AMFridayNovNovember711/27/2009 12:33:17 PM6339490399775287452009112773317AMFridayNovNovember711/27/2009 12:33:17 PM633949039977528745false200981825622PMTuesdayAugAugust148/18/2009 6:56:22 PM633862041820000000200981825622PMTuesdayAugAugust148/18/2009 6:56:22 PM633862041820000000The New Yorker, Aug. 24Ben McGrath evaluates Michael Bloomberg's re-election bid for mayor of New York and finds that he is today so powerful he "seems more a Medici than a mayor." Bloomberg, "unusually adept at governing the ungovernable city," has decided again to throw enormous amounts of money at his re-election bid, after the problem of term limits was pushed aside. Running unopposed so far, Bloomberg is likely to win. Polls show that "a majority of the city's voters would prefer a new mayor but also believe the current one is the best available man for the job," McGrath writes. … Tad Friend profiles Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors, the Silicon Valley startup that is developing a $50,000 highway-ready electric car. Determined to bring electric cars to the masses, Musk, the co-founder of PayPal, hopes the next vehicle will cost only $25,000. He also wants to spur larger auto manufacturers into action: "Our success will make Toyota worry about what BMW will do, and G.M. worry about Honda—will create a concern about being late for the party."truenotochyperlinkno200981841414PMTuesdayAugAugust168/18/2009 8:14:14 PM633862088540000000200981841414PMTuesdayAugAugust168/18/2009 8:14:14 PM633862088540000000other magazinesA Dicey SituationDavid SessionsfalseTime on how the recession is killing Las Vegas.noA Dicey SituationWhat's new in the Economist, the New York Times Magazine, and The Nation.nospacer100133Timefalsefalse1/123125/122945/2207841/2224296/090814_OMAG_Time-8-14.jpghttp://img.slate.com/mediayesStandardImage1/123125/122945/2207841/2224296/090814_OMAG_Time-8-14.jpg100133http://img.slate.com/mediafalse2009112773320AMFridayNovNovember711/27/2009 12:33:20 PM6339490400000986222009112773320AMFridayNovNovember711/27/2009 12:33:20 PM6339490400000986222009112773320AMFridayNovNovember711/27/2009 12:33:20 PM633949040000098622false200981442315PMFridayAugAugust168/14/2009 8:23:15 PM633858637950000000200981442315PMFridayAugAugust168/14/2009 8:23:15 PM633858637950000000Time, Aug. 24The cover story surveys how the recession has devastated Las Vegas. The once-booming city is now dotted with unfinished hotels and visited by travelers paying deeply discounted rates. Casino owners lost financing for the multibillion-dollar projects, residents are abandoning the mortgages of their now-valueless homes, and strippers are taking online classes to compete with the thousands of unemployed women flooding into town. It adds up to huge trouble for the Nevada government, which depends almost completely on the city for tax revenue. … An article observes that as the majority of job losses have come in male-dominated industries, men's unemployment could produce significant cultural effects. While there are no historical instances of men handing an economy over to women, there do exist plenty of examples in which "women do all the arduous work while men sit around smoking and pontificating in coffeehouses and barbershops."truenotochyperlinkno200981444834PMFridayAugAugust168/14/2009 8:48:34 PM633858653140000000200981444834PMFridayAugAugust168/14/2009 8:48:34 PM633858653140000000other magazinesLast Man StandingDavid SessionsfalseEsquire on America's lone late-term abortion doctor.noLast Man StandingWhat's new in Vanity Fair, the Atlantic, and Texas Monthly.nospacer100135Esquirefalsefalse1/123125/122945/2207841/2224296/090811_OMAG_Esquire.jpghttp://img.slate.com/mediayesStandardImage1/123125/122945/2207841/2224296/090811_OMAG_Esquire.jpg100135http://img.slate.com/mediafalse2009112773311AMFridayNovNovember711/27/2009 12:33:11 PM6339490399141594722009112773311AMFridayNovNovember711/27/2009 12:33:11 PM6339490399141594722009112773311AMFridayNovNovember711/27/2009 12:33:11 PM633949039914159472false200981132857PMTuesdayAugAugust158/11/2009 7:28:57 PM633856013370000000200981132857PMTuesdayAugAugust158/11/2009 7:28:57 PM633856013370000000Esquire, September 2009An article profiles the last man in America still performing risky late-term abortions. Warren Hern practices behind walls of bulletproof glass and talks about the people who earlier this year killed his friend and fellow late-term abortionist George Tiller. "It's a violent terrorist movement, and they have a fascist ideology." Hern believes helping women whose babies have serious or fatal deformities—not people who accidentally got pregnant and waited to abort—is "the most important thing I could do in medicine." … An article describes the painful psychological effects of going without solid food. The author, who has Crohn's disease, subsisted for two months on total parenteral nutrition—"a mixed bag of nutritional fluids"—while feeling an intense hunger he eventually realized was more mental than physical. His taste buds disappeared, and when his doctor allowed him to eat again, "there [was] no sensation of hunger or feelings of digestion or satiation."truenotochyperlinkno200981150420PMTuesdayAugAugust178/11/2009 9:04:20 PM633856070600000000200981150420PMTuesdayAugAugust178/11/2009 9:04:20 PM633856070600000000other magazinesCruel and UnusualDavid SessionsfalseThe Economist on America's exceptionally harsh sex-offender laws.noCruel and UnusualWhat's new in Time, New York Times Magazine, and Rolling Stone.noEconomist, Aug. 8The cover story calls America's harsh punishment of sex offenders "unjust and ineffective." In multiple instances, high-schoolers have been convicted for having consensual sex with their underage sweethearts and forced to enter the public registry for life. Others have been harassed in their homes and even murdered. Though the United States' harsh laws have little effect—recidivism rates are high and public registries have not reduced rates of offense at all—other countries are now copying a trend that has careened out of control. … An article charts the rise of home-schooling in the United States. The number of children who are home-schooled—1.5 million—has doubled in the past decade, and 83 percent of home-schooling families do so for religious or moral reasons. The Internet has helped home-schoolers communicate and share materials, and having Barack Obama in the White House may motivate more conservatives to take their children out of public schools.truenotochyperlinkno20098752139PMFridayAugAugust178/7/2009 9:21:39 PM63385262499000000020098752139PMFridayAugAugust178/7/2009 9:21:39 PM633852624990000000200311442518PMTuesdayJanJanuary161/14/2003 9:25:18 PM631781583180000000200311442518PMTuesdayJanJanuary161/14/2003 9:25:18 PM631781583180000000falsetruefalsefalsefalsetruetrue20011018111443PMThursdayOctOctober2310/19/2001 3:14:43 AM6313904368300000002001102953601PMMondayOctOctober1710/29/2001 9:36:01 PM631399737610000000