The One-Page Magazine: Obama’s Ticking Clock

THE BIG PROFILE: CHRIS CORNELL

By Dave Itzkoff

Over the years, Chris Cornell has learned to keep his growly, grungy singing voice in top condition. "Obviously, don't do anything stupid that's destructive," says the frontman of Soundgarden, which has reunited and released a new album, "King Animal." "But also, don't worry about it." Take the example of Tom Waits, Cornell says: "A voice is an instrument — create something that's inspired with that instrument. His has done a lot of weird things, but whatever it's doing, he seems to make an amazing painting out of it."

THE MEH LIST

By Samantha Henig

Cyber Monday

Merino wool

''Hyde Park on the Hudson''

Provolone

Photos of topless men

The San Diego ChargersPodcasts*

Additional reporting and user experience by Libby Gery

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GIRL TALK

By Jessica Gross

According to a recent study in the journal Sex Roles, the ratio of male to female pronouns in U.S. literature tracks the rise in women's cultural status. In the mid-'60s, there were 4.5 male pronouns for every female one. Now it's 2 to 1. "There's big progress," the study's author, Jean Twenge, says. Her thoughts on that he/she construction? "It's awkward, but it is egalitarian."

AND SO IT GOES

By Maud Newton

In a new collection of his letters, Kurt Vonnegut turns his roving wit on even his own mental health. Was admitting to seeing a psychotherapist for writer's block akin to "saying, 'We don't have any kids yet, but brother, you should see us try'?" he wondered in 1953. Years later he pondered the unlikelihood of consulting a shrink named O'Connell. "Oh, well," he concluded, "only a Catholic could find my atheism interesting."

WASHINGTON MONUMENTS: IS THIS OVER YET?

By Matt Bai

In theory, a re-elected president gets four more years. But not really. You spend the first six months after an election breaking in a new cabinet and leadership team. By then, you're only a year or so from the midterm elections, which are followed by the start of the next presidential cycle. All of which means a second-term president has only a matter of months, really, to command the conversation. But hey, no pressure.

WHAT I'M DRINKING NOW

By Mario Batali

Around Thanksgiving, I want a cranberry ginger Collins. I fill a Collins glass with ice, add a jigger of gin and squeeze in half a lime. I make a simple syrup with a nob of thinly sliced ginger and then roll wet cranberries in sugar and pop them in the freezer. When they're cold, I toss in 5 or 6, add 1 tablespoon of the ginger syrup and fill with Schweppes bitter lemon.

LEGS OF STEEL

By Hope Reeves

Jiangsu Province's new Gate to the East is composed of two 74-story office towers merging into each other. The building was designed to echo the Arc de Triomphe, but it instead resembles a pair of low-rise jeans. After a local blogger complained that walking through the structure would be like crawling "between someone else's legs," a Shanghai Daily headline earnestly asked, "Is It an Arch or Just Plain Pants?"

THAT SHOULD BE A WORD

By Lizzie Skurnick

(FLAG-UH-KNEE), n.

1. Guilt over an unanswered e-mail. "Consumed with flagony, Jin stared again at her college roommate's lengthy update." See also: sendriloquist (avid forwarder); e-mass (store e-mails in in-box).

JUDGE JOHN HODGMAN RULES

By John Hodgman

SHANNON WRITES: My husband and I feel entitled to unrestricted access to our children's leftover Halloween candy. Our children feel that since they do all legwork, they hold sole distribution rights. Your judgment is requested. I generally find it important to remind children that they are serfs. Though they may work your land, everything upon it is technically your property, down to the tiniest Lego brick. That said, you do not wish to raise slaves (or Tea Party recruits). Halloween is a form of entrepreneurial training, and to confiscate the fruits of their labor without limit is predatory. You may take one piece of candy in symbolic tribute to the roads and infrastructure they did not build; but even then, keep it to a Bit-O-Honey, or else you risk an uprising.

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A ONE-SENTENCE BOOK REVIEW

By Tyler Cowen

"The Dawn of Innovation," by Charles R. Morris: The early 19th century as a pep talk for today.

 

HOW TO CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS

By Mike Huckabee

On Christmas Eve, we go to the service at our church, and when it's over, we go out for Chinese food. When everything in your world is changing and always being rearranged, it's nice to have something that has a constant value. As told to Spencer Bailey

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