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...Schulkin's manifesto/music-video mash-up. But the biggest surprise to Montagnaro - who says he plans to start aiming Carrotmobs at small stores in the center of Philadelphia - is how quickly older people grasp the concept. "Someone 65 or 70 often gets this right away," he says. "People my age can be slower." (See 10 things to buy during the recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shoppers, Unite! Carrotmobs Are Cooler than Boycotts | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

...measures include more spot checks on gun owners at their homes to ensure that weapons and ammunition are being stored and locked away properly; raising the legal age for using a high-caliber weapon for target practice from 14 to 18; amnesty for people who hand over illegal weapons to the authorities; and biometric security systems to ensure that weapons are being used by their rightful owners. After the Winnenden shooting, it emerged that Kretschmar had used his father's gun, which he found in his parents' bedroom. His father had a permit to own the gun, but current...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New German Gun Laws Could Ban Paintball | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

...what we preach to our schoolchildren. Without the enduring assumption that a beautiful face precedes an equally attractive voice, we’d never have heard of her—an embarrassing sign that Rudolf’s isn’t so elementary a lesson as the age of his target audience might suggest. If Susan Boyle has taught us anything, it’s that the beggar-to-princess narrative hasn?...

Author: By Sean R. Ouellette | Title: Britain’s Got Archetypes | 5/13/2009 | See Source »

...before. Her rags-to-riches ascent joins the long tradition of Cinderella, Philoctetes, Cyrano de Bergerac, the frog prince, and Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. No doubt the producers of “Britain’s Got Talent” knew this when they decided to recast the age-old archetype on a modern stage like so many authors, playwrights, and bards before them. The fresh angle in Boyle’s case, though, is that this isn’t a puppet show Christmas special or a child’s folk tale—this is reality...

Author: By Sean R. Ouellette | Title: Britain’s Got Archetypes | 5/13/2009 | See Source »

...moralizing seems to be its unapologetic reality. Next year, YouTubers will find another craze, Britons will find another media darling, and Simon Cowell will find another unlikely star to mine for ratings. Boyle will land a record deal and sell enough albums to live comfortably to a ripe old age. But the next time a buffoonish-looking, middle-aged woman with a stellar soprano auditions for Britain’s Got Talent, she won’t make it very far—that’s already been done. Money, not principle, will always be the goal...

Author: By Sean R. Ouellette | Title: Britain’s Got Archetypes | 5/13/2009 | See Source »

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