NEAL ASCHERSON | September 4th 2008
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An expert on eastern Europe, Neal Ascherson mourns the delicious pleasure of smoking at the cinema in the afternoon ...

From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, Autumn 2008

Contrary to what many people believe, highly intelligent children are not necessarily destined for academic success. In fact, so-called gifted students may fail to do well because they are unusually smart. Ensuring that a gifted child reaches his or her potential requires an understanding of what can go wrong and how to satisfy the unusual learning requirements of extremely bright young people.

SHAMI CHAKRABARTI | September 3rd
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We continue with our series on freedoms lost and gained, 60 years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ...

From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, Autumn 2008

A HEADY ANNIVERSARY | September 2nd 2008
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Sixty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, liberties are being taken with your liberties. Intelligent Life magazine asks 11 people which freedom lost, and gained, means the most to them. We start with Richard Dawkins ...

From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, Autumn 2008

INTELLIGENT LIFE ON NEWSSTANDS | September 2nd 2008
OUR LATEST COVER STAR: PRINCE CHARLES

On the cover of the new Intelligent Life magazine is the Prince of Wales, who is about to turn 60.

"Whatever else you may say about Prince Charles," says the editor of the magazine, Tim de Lisle, "he leads an intelligent life." The cover story, by the novelist and Economist writer J.M. Ledgard, looks at Charles the working man, at his causes and hobbyhorses and what he has done with the unique set of cards he has been dealt, as the only Prince of Wales of the media age. Of his wives, there is barely a mention. The cover image shows Charles as a young man, expressing the fact that the piece comes at him afresh.

SLEEPLESS IN ST PAUL | September 1st

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Exhausted from one convention and now headlong into another, The Economist's international correspondent is grateful for what can't be predicted in the coming week ...

From ECONOMIST.COM

NOTES ON AN EXUBERANT POET | August 31st 2008
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There was a time when Ryan Ruby would've taken a punch for broody, gloomy T.S. Eliot. But years in the thrum of New York City have encouraged a taste for something more jazzy and irreverent ...  

Special to MORE INTELLIGENT LIFE

A COLLECTOR WINNOWS AND SHARPENS | August 30th 2008

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How Jeffrey E. Horvitz's magnificent collection of drawings made him a custodian of "part of the cultural patrimony of the world" ...

From ECONOMIST.COM

What we are learning about the interplay of hormones, breast cancer, chemotherapy and the pregnant body.

Paella gets grilled by an inquisitive cook.