"I Enjoy Helping." Nina Jo Schmale, 21, queen of the nurses' spring dance, was engaged to a high school sweetheart, proudly kept in her room a sign post for "Schmale Rd.," named for her Wheaton, Ill., ...

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If it's summer in Peru (December to April), then Lima's hip crowd can be found in one place: Asia. Not the continent, but the coastal district located 60 miles south of Lima. Asia comprises some 30 ...

As 5,000 spectators watched and bands played, the Panamanian and U.S. flags rose last week for the first time, side by side, on newly set, identical poles over a Canal Zone plaza. Thus fulfilled was ...

From a genetic testing service to an invisibility cloak to an ingenious public bike system to the world's first moving skyscraper — here are TIME's picks for the top innovations of 2008 ...

As a naked Kate Walsh graces the cover of Shape, TIME looks at some other nude magazine covers that have made a splash over ...

From the zany to the dangerous to the just plain dumb, here is TIME's list (in no particular order) of some of the world's ...

Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa's bizarre, disoriented appearance at a news conference sparked his resignation, ...

A recent Welsh ad warning against texting and driving is a viral sensation, but it's got nothing on Smokey Bear and singing ...

On the 75th anniversary of the Lindbergh kidnapping, TIME looks back at the notorious crimes of the past hundred ...

Flying cars! Jet packs! Lasers that zap malaria-carrying mosquitoes! Here are the year's biggest (and coolest) breakthroughs ...

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