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Men's Interests

By now, you're already well aware of the big winners from last night's Academy Awards. You've heard about The Hurt Locker's semi-sweep and Kathryn Bigelow shattering of the glass ceiling. You know that Sandra Bullock cries and the Dude abides and blah, bl

Oliver Stone’s 1987 Wall Street succeeded brilliantly in capturing a culture, and failed miserablyas a call for change. To the director’s dismay, thousands of financial hotshots dreamed of becoming Gordon Gekko—and the rest is recent history. Antici

Lehman Brothers C.E.O. Dick Fuld expected his top executives to get married, and stay married. For their wives, the firm was both fishbowl and shark tank, with unwritten rules about the clothes they wore, the charities they supported, and the hikes they t

While Michael Douglas reprises his Oscar-winning role as Gordon Gekko, he is also focused on another sequel: the successive father-son problems that have wounded three generations of Douglases. The author hears how the 65-year-old star made peace with his

When we get excited about a dedicated home theater, it's rarely the equipment that has us salivating. It's almost always about the unique interior design. We are enthralled by the designer's decorative statement, whether it is a themed theater that

Just like in Vegas, where your odds of hitting on the roulette table are 37:1, or 2.6%, your chances of finding an actually desirable chat partner (an attractive topless woman perhaps?) are predictably low. But what exactly are those odds? We forced our i

The Dude weighs in on surfing hazards, isolation tanks, and stupid sibling tricks.

These beauties and their steamy stomping grounds will make more than your temperature rise.

The legendary cyclist on how to pedal your way into shape

Michael Burry always saw the world differently—due, he believed, to the childhood loss of one eye. So when the 32-year-old investor spotted the huge bubble in the subprime-mortgage bond market, in 2004, then created a way to bet against it, he wasn’t

A new miniseries bears down on the brutal, sometimes barbaric fighting in the Pacific theater.

Independent and strong willed

If you had to guess, which of the women in the photograph to the left is an introvert and which is an extrovert? Can you tell? If you subscribed to the myth of introverts being antisocial, neither looks the role. However, if you were better informed and k

I hear the beginning of "good news" rumblings on the job front. I hope that means that in the near future, many people who are out of work will be interviewing to get back to work and get back on their feet. An interview is a terrible thing to waste an

Greed is out empathy is in, despite the doom and gloom of recent times.Jeremy Rifkin, a prolific writer, and advisor to the European Union since 2002, and principle architect of the Third Industrial Revolution, describes in his new book, The Empathetic Ci