The Best Inventions Of the Year
Your Guide to the Most Interesting New Products and Ideas of 2007

Invention Of the Year: The iPhone (Best Inventions)

The Best Of The Rest (Best Inventions)

Warren Buffett, Adjust My Bra (Best Inventions / Viewpoint)
Scientists in Hong Kong have discovered there's a better way to build a bra. How will the lingerie industry respond? An open letter to the one man who can help


Pakistan's State of Emergency
Pervez Musharraf infuriates his people — and embarrasses Washington — by cracking down on democracy. Will that help him fight the war on terrorism? Probably not


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Class Struggle
The collapse of Japan's largest language-school chain leaves its foreign teachers out in the cold


Painting: A Man Apart
Ahmad Zakii Anwar's hyper-realist male figures break with Malay tradition and technique


Milan: A View to Please (Check In)
In a Milan landmark a hotel takes service to the extreme

Garden of Musical Delights (Diversions)
Cape Town's Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden plays host to an eclectic concert season

Something Like the Real Thing (Gift Guide)
Forget novelty pens. Take a piece of history home from the best museum stores