Editor’s Pick
Ask the pilot
Do you really think I’d lie to you about cabin air? Plus: The Colgan crash and the problems with regional airlines.
Do CEOs Matter?
Steve Jobs, Apple’s ailing CEO, is scheduled to return to work this month after a six-month leave, but investors are feeling skittish.
The Eminem interview
The greatest rapper on earth gets personal on Proof, guns, Bill O’Reilly and being an artist from Detroit
As Cheney Seizes Spotlight, Many Republicans Wince
His running argument with the Obama administration has spawned a noisy side debate all its own: By leading the criticism, is Cheney doing more harm than good to the causes he has taken up and to the political well-being of his party?
Sex Work
Two new biographies — one of Helen Gurley Brown and the other of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson — offer cautionary tales about mixing sex and the workplace.
Hemingway’s Libidinous Feast
In a restored edition of a great classic, sexual anxiety looms large.
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3: Tony Scott Likes It Loud, Fast, and Profane
Why remake a bland but beloved thriller? Because movies should at least try to be as dangerous as life.
Hacking Education
The possibility that education can be unbundled, and that, as an information good, it may be possible to radically reduce the cost of providing at least some types of education could have important social consequences.
