Bloody X to mark Osama in Time magazine special issue

Hitler, Sadaam Hussein, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, now Osama bin Laden. Time magazine's cover for only the fourth time in its 88-year history will put a bloody, red "X" across the face of the dead al Qaeda leader in its special May 20 issue out on newsstands on May 16. This, according to minonline. 

Time magazine archives available back to 1923

Time magazine now has opened up its archives going back to 1923; you can find covers and stories for every issue in fully searchable form. The links are so sophisticated that you can follow a story week to week. (The cover shown is from 1978).

Time's new look, looks familiar, says Maclean's:

In the note from the editors, Maclean's suggests this week that the much ballyhooed redesign of Time magazine looks an awful lot like Maclean's own redesign of November 2005.In concert with Maclean's centenary in November 2005, we waved goodbye to news rehashes, and cut back on lifestyle and service journalism. We committed ourselves to forward-looking coverage of news and current affairs. Our