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CHICAGO — The places had names like Perv’s House, Pepper’s Hide Out and the Five Fingers Social Club. Homes away from home where patrons dressed in their best, usually gold and mink, burning away the week’s problems in cigarette smoke, Crown Royal and the electric chords of guitars. For the photographer Michael Abramson , they were oases on Chicago’s rough-and-tumble South Side, where neon Schlitz signs beckoned from behind caged windows.
Showcase: South Side Blues - Lens Blog - NYTimes.com
The change in attitude towards religion in Egypt can easily be seen in the streets of Cairo.
Cairo's Muslim Youth
China has sought access to Guinea's vast reserves of bauxite and iron ore since its relationship with the impoverished nation first flowered in the 1950s. China's approach to securing minerals in Guinea and throughout Africa has been to sign agreements to build huge projects in exchange for minerals.
Backing Off of Guinea - The New York Times > World > Slide Show
Bureaucracy, oh bureaucracy. How easy it is to curse that amorphous force that sucks up time, binding productivity and creativity in red tape.
A Look Into Bureaucrats' Offices - The Picture Show Blog : NPR
Choosing a Road More Traveled - The New York Times > U.S. > Slid
Tiffany Clay, a gifted 18-year-old musician near the top of her class in her small town of Newark, Ohio, should be going to a top college, on scholarship. But she won't be, because like many in her small town, she feels a need to make money more than music.
Despite being sidelined just weeks ago when a Supreme Court ruling barred him from office because of an earlier criminal conviction, Nawaz Sharif, on right side of banner, is now front and center in Pakistani politics.
A Political Comeback for Nawaz Sharif - The New York Times > Asi
Fervent Believers - The New York Times > World > Slide Show > Sl
A Jewish settler prays at sunrise from a former outpost near Nablus.
At an LED factory in Shenzhen, TIME meets some of the young men and women — all of them migrants — who are fueling China's booming economic growth
Portraits of Chinese Workers - Photo Essays - TIME
The White House always travels with the president. When President Obama flew to Columbus, Ohio, on Friday morning -- a visit typical of the trips he has taken during the opening weeks of his administration -- the essential pieces of the West Wing follow.
West Wing Takes Its Work to the Air - The New York Times > U.S.
The President’s Mailman - The New York Times > U.S. > Slide Show
Mike Kelleher, the director of the White House Office of Correspondence, looks through some of the letters that have arrived at the White House.
Ela Bhatt, 76, who fought for higher wages for women in Gujarat, India, more than three decades ago, has since created India's first women's bank, the Self-Employed Women's Association, or SEWA.
Guiding Women With a Gandhian Approach - The New York Times > As
Jesselyn Bercian, now 20, an American-born daughter of Salvadoran immigrants, lives in Langley Park, Md., a suburb of Washington.
Struggling in the Suburbs - The New York Times > U.S. > Slide Sh
Cloaked in a brown wool shawl and carrying a walking stick, the figure of a man emerges from a dense early-morning fog. He is part of Tablighi Jamaat, a missionary movement that spreads revivalist Islam through its followers, who travel the world on preaching missions. The movement convenes in Raiwind, Pakistan, once a year.