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Martha Breaks Out
by Keith Naughton, Newsweek
After five months in prison, Martha's primed and ready for her next act: two TV shows and a marketing blitz stage-managed by a new A-list team. Inside the Martha Makeover Machine.

Like Father, Like Son
by Jennifer Frey, Washington Post
Can restoring Georgetown to the glory days of John Thompson Jr. be as easy as one, two, III?

And The Loser Is...
by Steve Pond, Los Angeles Times
Maybe it was the worst Oscars show ever produced. But it changed the way the Oscars have been produced ever since.

The Way We Eat: Tex Macs
by Amanda Hesser, New York Times
McDonald's is creating its own worst enemy: a healthy burrito.

Southern France Makes Pizza Its Own
by Daniel Young, New York Times
Pizzas from Provence highlight not only the local cheeses, but local sauces and custom-made ovens.

The Resurrection Of Indie Radio
by Charles C. Mann, Wired
FM never sounded so freaking good. How the coming digital boom — and Big Radio's bottom line — is driving the new golden age of multichannel, microniche broadcasting.

The Thompson Style: A Sense Of Self, And Outrage
by David Carr, New York Times
Of all of the so-called parctitioners of New Journalism, Mr. Thompson was the one who was willing to insert himself and his capacious reserve of outrage into the middle of every story.

Why Stevie Can't Spell
by Steve Hendrix, Washington Post
After more than three decades of mangling words, a mortified writer sets out to get some answers.

From Here To Eternity
by Joel Achenbach, Washington Post
If we never grow old, tilld eath do us part could take a very long time.

Gonzo Gone
by Dana Cook, Salon
Sonny Barger, Rosalynn Carter, Ben Fong-Torres and others remember the wild life and times of Hunter S. Thompson.

Disney's Next Hero: A Lion King Of Kings
by David Kehr, New York Times
The pros at Disney are wrestling with a special challenge: how to sell a screen hero who was conceived as a forthright symbol of Jesus Christ, a redeemer who is tortured and killed in place of a young human sinner and who returns in a glorious resurrection that transforms the snowy landscape of Narnia into a verdant paradise.

Uncaptive Minds
by Ian Buruma, New York Times
What teaching a college-level class at a maximum-security correctional facility did for the inmates — and for me.

Revenge Of The Right Brain
by Daniel H. Pink, Wired
Logical and precise, left-brain thinking gave us the Information Age. Now comes the Conceptual Age — ruled by artistry, empathy, and emotion.

Activists Put Their Minds In The Toilet
by Alyssa Ford, Utne
Women and men urinating in the same room? Preposterous!

The Chefs' Club About Nothing
by Judith Weinraub, Washington Post
Washington's unlikely, laid-back, late-night culinary crew.

The Point Of Miss Gould's Pencil
by Verylyn Klinkenborg, New York Times
I never met Miss Gould. But deep in a box at home are the proofs of articles I once wrote for The New Yorker, and in the margins is the handwriting of Eeanor Gould Packard — the magazine's venerable arbiter of style, who died on Sunday at 87. I thought I knew a lot about the English language at the time. But it was clear from Miss Gould's annotations — her very direct strictures — that a few details of syntax, usage and logic still needed to be fixed.

The Real Lincoln
by Justin Ewers, U.S. News
Who was the man behind the myth? New research delves into Abe's early years.

A Whizz With WOrds
by Helen Brown, Telegraph
For too many of us, reading has become a rushed affair.

The Collar Of Money In New York Dog
by Peter Carlson, Washington Post
At first, I figured New York Dog was an over-the-top parody of dog magazines, perhaps published by the folks who put out the Onion.

Gospel's Got The Blues
by Robert Darden, New York Times
It would be more than a cultural disaster to forever lose this music. It would be a sin.

The Comeback Of A Cutlure Of Rivalry
by Andrew O' Hagan, Telegraph
We are becoming addicted to the concept of winners and losers.

A Reality Waiting To Happen
by Deborah Starr Seibel, Broadcasting & Cable
The ultimate stunt: avoiding a genre-killing accident.

Arthur Miller: Death Of A Legend
by Adam Cohen, New York Times
Mr. Miller's career had its share of misfires, but on the strength of his best plays, he seems as destined for immortality as his most famous character was for obscurity.

Brute Force For Brain Teasers
by Daniel Terdiman, Wired News
Puzzle contests are becoming less a solitary pursuit and more a group-think challenge. Is it fair? That depends.

Olmsted Vs. Christo
by Witold Rybczynski, Slate
Why the architects of Central Park woul dhave vetoed "The Gates."

My Career In Bumper Stickers
by Sparrow and Art Chantry, New York Times
One day it struck me that I could write my own messages, and pretend they were real.

Once More, With Feeling
by Sumiko Tan, Straits Times
It's a scary thought that when I'm gone, my family's traditions will disappear with me.

Making The Extra Pass
by David Wharton, Los Angeles Times
American basketball has lost its way. A game born of teamwork became a celebration of individual prowess. Now a growing number of NBA franchises are trying to turn back the clock.

A Little Anthology Of Love Poems
by Robert Pinsky, Slate
What to read your sweetheart on Valentine's Day.

A Fairy Tale For Grownups
by Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post
And so, a happy ending for two crazy fifty-somethings — with castles, servants and a mother-in-law who really does have the last word. No fairy tale, but a messy, real-life love story.

What Is A Princess Consort?
by Daniel Engber, Slate
No one knows. Camilla will be the first.

The Well-Tempered Wok
by Julia Moskin, New York Times
Wok hay is what happens when excellent ingredients — like ginger, noodles shrimp, walnuts or Chinese chives — meet a wok crackling with heat. It is both a taste and aroma and something else, too, a lively freshness that prickles yournose and makes you impatient for that first tste, like the smell of steak just off the grill or a tomato right off the vine in August.

Photos That Look Good Enough To Eat
by Regina Schrambling, Los Angeles Times
A camera is just a visual notebook to me, but I see more and more amateur eaters and serioius cooks also using it to preserve their food memories in a digital age.

Twilight Of The Jedi
by Jason Silverman, Wired News
The May 19 premiere of Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, which is less than 100 days away, will be for many a bittersweet event.

How Bill Gates Cured My PMS
by L. J. Williamson, Salon
My Irrational Bitch side was wreaking havoc with my life — until I told my computer to remind me that it was that time of month.

Your Table Is Ready
by John Kenney, New Yorker
I had been trying to get a reservation at Masa since 1987, seventeen years before it opened, as I knew that one of the prerequisites of dining there was a knowledge of the future.

Crying And Digging
by Nancy Rommelmann, Los Angeles Times
For centuries in America, we tended to our dead. This changed, incrementally, during the Civil War, when others were paid to undertake the job of transporting the bodies of soldiers killed far from home; this is when formaldehyde as an embalming agent was first used. But it was only 100 years ago that we began routinely to hand over our dead to the undertakers. Soon the gravely ill as well were deemed too taxing, and moved to hospitals to die. Within decades, what had for millennia been familial responsibilities were appropriated by professionals.

Textbook Message
by Ann Hulbert, New York Times
With a sendup of social-studies textbooks that is not merely for students, Stewart and the "Daily Show" satirists have a lesson for champions of "civic renewal": thanks to all the partisan pugilism, kids are being served sanitized pablum in school — and that's hardly a recipe for energizing our citizenry.

Fly The Frugal Skies
by Matt Welch, Reason
How low-cost airlines have transformed Europe — and what it means for America.

The Wired Generations
by Alison Arnett, Boston Globe
Frothy coffees and sweet energy drinks make caffeine a drug for all ages.

Lemons, Yes, But Please! Don't Squeeze
by David Karp, New York Times
For over a century lemons came in only one model in the United States. But lately, some flashy new styles have arrived.

The Waiter You Stiffed Has Not Forgotten
by Julia Moskin, New York Times
What evil lurks in the hearts of waiters? Now you can find out. But can you stomach the results?

Seeing Is No Longer Believing
by Susan Llewelyn Leach, Christian Science Monitor
Manipulating digital images has never been easier or faster. But there's a fine line between 'improving' a photo and altering it.

Bohemian New York
by Inigo Thomas, Slate
Reading New York.

Raphael's Other Woman
by Mia Fineman, Slate
WHo is the mystery lady in La Fornarina?

Carson's Long Late-Night Shadow
by Alessandra Stanley, New York Times
It would be nice if the late Johnny Carson could be remembered a little less reverently; then perhaps some other talk-show host could shake up a format that has not been altered or improved upon since Mr. Carson retired.

Promied Seat On Air Shuttle Is Perk Of Past
by Patrick McGreehan, New York Times
Generations of East Coast travelers have been comforted by a reliable guarantee that dnagled at the other end of a harried cab ride: there would always be enough seats on the hourly shuttles connecting New York to Boston and Washington, even if another plane had to be rolled out to accommodate them. Starting yesterday, the era has ended.

Blue Oyster Cult, Playing Along With 'More Cowbell'
by Paul Farhi, Washington Post
"Guess what? I got a FE-ver, and the only prescription... is more cowbell!"

Doubting Darwin
by Jerry Adler, Newsweek
How did life, in its infinite complexity, come to be? A controversial new theory called 'intelligent design' asserts a supernatural agent was at work.