COVER

The 50 Best Inventions of 2010

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

COMMENTARY

BRIEFING

The Skimmer

The Memory Chalet is both an autobiography and a lovely little social history of the second half of the 20th century

GLOBAL BUSINESS

LETTERS