Topic: Oxford

Pune, India: A mix of Hindus, Muslims, and foreigners a target for a terrorist attack

Pune, India – with its cosmopolitan mix of Hindus, Muslims, entrepreneurs, and upscale hotels – is seen as a ripe target for another terrorist attack.

How America can create jobs

The nation's entrepreneurial prowess may be the best hope to stem 9.7 percent unemployment. Companies from a laser-tech firm to a baby-sitting network are harnessing new ideas – and helping reinvent the economy.

Obama vs. his enemies

Does President Obama still think he can charm his opponents? To save his presidency, he must take them on.

The September Society

The Value of Nothing

Activist and academic Raj Patel offers a stinging indictment of capitalism.

Top universities: Britain pushes Oxford and Cambridge to recruit more widely

Top universities Oxford and Cambridge draw 43 percent of students from private schools that educate 7 percent of the population. They face pressure to take applicants' social and economic background into account.

'Unfriend' as word of the year? Is 2009 so cold?

Unfriend: Oxford's 2009 Word of the Year

'Unfriend' follows hypermiling, 2008's word of the year choice.

Review: 'An Education'

A coming-of-age story about a precocious schoolgirl whose new older boyfriend turns out not to be all that he seems.

World's top 200 colleges: an educated guess?

The Times Higher Education-QS World Rankings show that US top colleges face fierce competition from Asia.

Opinion: America's got to end its deadly devotion to democracy

Washington needs to rid itself of the politically correct attitude that all nations are capable of becoming sustainable democracies.

How Rome Fell

Rome’s decline began at the top, contends British historian Adrian Goldsworthy.

Britain terse over poetic verse

Oxford University's first female professor of poetry resigns. But nation's first female poet laureate is second only to Shakespeare in popularity.

Today's agenda: North Korea's capacity, Palestinian summit, rights in China

Opinion: Why journalists deserve low pay

The demise of the news business can be halted, but only if journalists commit to creating real value for consumers and become more involved in setting the course of their companies.

Preventing a 2-degree C temperature rise = almost no fossil fuel use

Two new climate studies say that the US must cut carbon dioxide emissions by 90 to 95 percent to prevent the planet from becoming too warm.

Opinion: A fallen wall, a renewed Germany, a united Europe

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, harmony between Germany and the rest of Europe at last seems natural and durable.

Built of Books

Oscar Wilde’s life viewed through the prism of his library.

Cuba's environment – how will a thaw in relations with the U.S. affect it?

Arguing the size of the "tea party" protest

In any case, experts see it as democracy in action, and that's a good thing.

Difference Maker New online dictionary redefines 'look it up'

Lexicographer Erin McKean’s interactive ‘Wordnik’ is projected to be the largest online dictionary ever.

'Apes' own a piece of the Rock (of Gibraltar)

Wild ‘apes’ stole my snuggly! A macaque on Gibraltar snatches her toddler’s favorite toy and a woman finds out about Europe’s only wild primates.

It's cold. Does that debunk global warming?

As Al Gore delivered his testimony to Congress on the urgency of addressing climate change Wednesday, snow and ice blanketed the nation from Oklahoma to New England, snarling commutes, knocking out power for hundreds of thousands, and providing an apparent irony that is too rich for some commentators to ignore.

As atheists roll out London ads, believers unruffled

Billboard campaign promotes atheist beliefs on buses.

Charities borrow for-profit strategies to do good

Hybrid businesses enlist nonprofit strategies as well to achieve selfless goals.