Master Sgt. Anthony Henry, center, and Staff Sgt. Chris Cano told one prospective applicant she needed to lose weight.Credit...Michael Stravato for The New York Times TULSA, Okla. — Master Sgt. Anthony Henry, a top Marine recruiting trainer for the southwestern United States, pulled up to Tulsa’s…

This story was originally published Sept. 18, 2011. You can read more of our series on Amazon.com 's Lehigh Valley warehouse at themorningcall.com/amazon . Elmer Goris spent a year working in Amazon.com 's Lehigh Valley warehouse, where books, CDs and various other products are packed and shipped to…

This past weekend, I had the great honor of sitting down with two-time Academy Award nominated actor and star of the upcoming film “Moneyball,” Brad Pitt. In the film, Pitt plays Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane, who used unconventional methods for evaluating baseball talent to…

News Analysis WASHINGTON — The details of President Obama’s plan to reduce federal deficits by more than $3 trillion over 10 years, which he laid out Monday morning, underscore a strategic White House shift away from the pursuit of compromise toward a more partisan confrontation. The key points of…

As Premier Christy Clark unveils a new jobs plan this week, many will be watching to see where innovation and technology figure into her government’s new employment strategy. There has been plenty of talk by the B.C. government in recent years about its desire to turn the province into Silicon…

Mac OS X Lion has changed scrolling In July, Apple released its new operating system, Mac OS X Lion, and pulled a Frank Lloyd Wright. The architect would return to the homes he had designed and rearrange the furniture as he saw fit, often in the middle of the night. You like the piano there? Too…

You did not have to listen for too long to Julian Assange's half-educated condemnations of the American "military-industrial complex" to know that he was aching to betray better and braver people than he could ever be. As soon as WikiLeaks received the State Department cables, Assange announced that…

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September 18, 2011 | by | Features The city of Vancouver had existed for less than two months on the day it burned to the ground. The flames which consumed the fledgling city on a quiet Sunday afternoon in 1886 were unexpected, devastating, and moved with such terrifying swiftness that in less than…

There’s a new startup in Vancouver that’s turning the city into a village. Combining some of the best of Facebook features with old style chatting over the backyard fence, Kinjoe has launched an online service that lets people look for others in their neighborhood who share their interests. A kind…

We’ve reached the point in the season at which good teams are looking toward the playoffs—and, to their horror, find themselves imagining some combination of absence or failure. Which is why managers have recently taken to the time-tested strategy of the closed-door meeting. Last week it was the NL…

DESIGN How the late Valentino Garavani mastered the art of the brand color ‘Valentino Rosso’ never became an official Pantone hue, but it did become part of fashion canon. DESIGN The story behind Macron’s expensive sunglasses French President Emmanuel Macron just found his Davos meme moment, thanks…

Illustration by Anna Ruch / The Atlantic. Source: Heritage Images / Getty The Great Divorce The marriage between Europe and the United States has been fraught from the first—and now it might be coming apart. Eliot A. Cohen The Sports Conspiracy That’s Too Easy to Believe Kaitlyn Tiffany America’s…

by David Roth and David Raposa David Roth: Do you think VH1 is ready for “Baseball Wives” as a spinoff of “Basketball Wives”? David Raposa: Do you think Jerry Seinfeld asked the world if it was ready for “The Marriage Ref”? David Roth: He only asks rhetorical questions, but you’re right. I am…

The Japanese-Canadian boys and men of the Asahi baseball club were worshiped as gods. Like the Yankees, theirs was a winning dynasty with its own signature style and strategy. Any athlete skilled enough to wear the emblematic "A" of the red and white jersey earned himself a coveted position that…

By Ryan Avent The opinions expressed are his own. The late 1990s was a wild time in Silicon Valley. The NASDAQ was soaring, and seemingly anyone could start a company, stick a .com at the end of its name, put together an IPO and retire a millionaire. The great boom ultimately took on a speculative…

Excerpt Chapter 7: Broken Britain Has anyone noticed ... that what we used to call the working class has shrunk? Not merely because, as surveys tell us, so many now think of themselves as ‘middle class’, but because something called the respectable working class has almost died out. What…

Follow @techland Goodreads is now the Netflix of book recommendations, or at least the company thinks so, seeing as its CEO Otis Chandler said exactly that in a press release announcing Goodreads’ new recommendation engine yesterday. It’s about time. Founded in 2006, Goodreads has gathered nearly…

Gowalla Is Reborn As A Beautiful App For Travel And Storytelling MG Siegler 10:37 AM PDT · September 12, 2011 The location wars had a number of casualties. Some companies shut down, some sold off their remaining tech and talent. Others are still out there plugging away, but at this point, it seems…

By Walt Harrington | August 25, 2011

Feross Aboukhadijeh (YouTube Instant).Photo: Dan Winters Feross Aboukhadijeh likes to tell the story of how he got famous. It happened last fall, as he was beginning his junior year at Stanford. Google had just unveiled a feature called Google Instant, which shows search results in real time, as you…

Soon after I began writing for Late Night with Conan O’Brien , a veteran writer took me aside. Correctly identifying one of my almost-daily crises of confidence, he explained that I shouldn’t get so h

The Education Issue An Education10:07 Three American siblings attend an experimental school in Moscow where instruction is only in Russian and classes are videotaped to improve teaching. The phone rang, and my stomach clenched when I heard her voice. “Daddy? I want to go home,” said my 8-year-old…

15 September 2011 – Baldur Bjarnason Ten thoughts on the problem with Twitter and why my life improved by escaping planet Twitter. Two months ago, I decided to concentrate on finishing one of my projects and one of the things I sacrificed in the name of productivity and time was Twitter. Strangely…

United States | Government spending We lose money on each consultant, but we make it up in volume |1 min read By M.S. HOW could it possibly cost more for a government agency to hire a private consulting company with its own headquarters, executives, support staff, shareholders and so forth to…

There is a craftsperson in everyone, according to Richard Sennett. But don’t spend too much time plumbing your psyche for a latent woodworker, quilter, or metalsmith. Craftsmanship, according to Sennett, a sociologist at New York University and the London School of Economics, both includes and…

Books of The Times Owen Jones’s first book, “Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class,” begins more like a Noël Coward play or a late-model Ian McEwan novel than like a rumbling social polemic. That is, it opens with a misfired witticism uttered at an elite East London dinner party. Here’s how…

I never woke up that early. I worked a late shift and followed it with a three-hour computer stretch starting at midnight, so eleven was an appropriate time for me to start the day. But that day, I had to wake up early to drive my dad to a job interview. His English was pretty rocky (still is) and…

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Steve Chen, left, and Chad Hurley, are taking over Delicious from Yahoo.Credit...Jim Wilson/The New York Times SAN MATEO, Calif. — Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have some experience with turning a small Web site into Internet gold. In 2006 they sold their scrappy start-up YouTube to Google for $1.65…