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On Monday, the one-year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, President Obama is scheduled to deliver a major speech on the financial crisis. He should take justifiable pride in some of the aggressive steps his administration has taken to ... [full story]

BEIJING — China has issued a sweeping directive requiring all personal computers sold in the country to include sophisticated software that can filter out pornography and other “unhealthy information” from the Internet. Skip to next paragraph ... [full story]

SINCE the 16th century, the ideal of education has been the tutorial system pioneered at Oxford and Cambridge, nurturing young minds one to one, inquiring, prodding and encouraging. The tutorial method, research shows, is a proven winner. ... [full story]

Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times PEST FIGHTERS Infestations keep Gil Bloom hopping at the Standard Extermination Company in Queens. Related Disgusting, Yes. But a Deal Breaker? (August 23, ... [full story]

Which of the following people would you say is the most admirable: Mother Teresa, Bill Gates or Norman Borlaug? And which do you think is the least admirable? For most people, it’s an easy question. Mother Teresa, famous for ministering ... [full story]

THEY are knee covers for camels — 10 inches wide, and fringed — and could not seem less glamorous. They were made in the 19th century by young women in Central Asia who were preparing for their weddings. Yet the ... [full story]

The sunset prayer had just ended, and Sheik Ahmad al-Jilani was already calling his class to order. When the latecomers slipped into the front row, Jilani nodded at them briskly. “Young men,” he began, “who can tell me why we ... [full story]

LOTS of people stumble upon the town where their future second home will be by getting lost. But perhaps none do so as dramatically as Kent Strickland. Skip to next paragraph More in EscapesMore articles on second homes and ... [full story]

SILVER CREEK, Miss. — The sight of a menacing dog outside her Brooklyn apartment would send Amya CaJoie Stewart skittering inside for safety. But not the Rottweiler that prowled the gravel road at her aunt’s house in this ... [full story]

Samuel M. Ehrenhalt, a poet of percentages who for 15 years as a regional commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics transformed colorless wage and employment figures into small, brightly lighted windows onto New Yorkers’ daily lives, died on Sunday ... [full story]