Stand in the center of the rotunda and gaze up to the heavens through the eight-meter-high oculus at the center of the five-ton concrete dome --a stunning feat of ancient engineering, still intact after two thousand years.

CNN: 24 hours in Rome: Pizzas, piazzas and 'la dolce vita'

After 30 years of chopping onions and dismantling a thousand chickens, my desire to understand what determines the alimentary equivalent of animal magnetism has yet to be fully answered.

WSJ: The Rules of Recipe Attraction

After providing two years of consulting services, Taylor billed the company a hundred thousand dollars (which works out to something like two and a half million dollars today), and then he was fired.

NEWYORKER: Not So Fast

Mackinder, who was born in 1861 and died just after the Second World War, looked at the past thousand years in Europe and proposed a surprisingly simple geographic explanation for everything that had happened.

NEWYORKER: Faces, Places, Spaces