ARTICLES MODERN

Great contains articles from the back issues of magazines, journals, trade publications and newspapers.

A Dying Breed

By ANDREW RICE

GERSHOM MUGIRA COMES from a long line of cattle-keepers. His people, the Bahima, are thought to have migrated into the hilly grasslands of western Uganda more than a thousand years ago, alongside a hardy breed of longhorns known as the Ankole. For centuries, man and beast subsisted there in a tight symbiotic […]

The Afterlife of Cellphones

By JON MOOALLEM

1. Cellphones in Hell
Americans threw out just shy of three million tons of household electronics in 2006. This so-called e-waste is the fastest-growing part of the municipal waste stream and, depending on your outlook, either an enormous problem or a bonanza. E-waste generally contains substances that, though safely sequestered during each […]

For Celebrity Magazine, Pregnancy Is a Bonus

By BRIAN STELTER

OK!, the celebrity magazine, could not possibly have purchased all the attention it enjoyed in late December after it got the scoop that Jamie Lynn Spears, the younger and until then less sensational sister of the troubled pop queen Britney Spears, was three months pregnant.
Or could it? It is widely assumed within […]

Intimate Shopping

By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL
“Information,” the apostles of cyberspace have been singing for more than a decade, “wants to be free.” Well, maybe your information does. But in late November, the social networking Web site Facebook discovered that many of its 58 million members don’t feel that way. On social networks, people can exchange photos, […]