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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Ned Tanen, a Paramount production boss in the '80s, called Hughes "the Steven Spielberg of youth comedy." Well, his movies were popular, with big grosses on spare budgets, but it's better to find literary analogues. In his facility for spinning the fullest comedy out of the frailest situation, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Hughes, Chronicler of '80s Teens, Dies | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

Spotify has been gaining popularity in Europe since its launch in 2006. The peer-to-peer program, which lets users share music from their own collections with other users, is considered one of the top music-streaming sites thanks to its huge library of songs, which play with almost zero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Apple Open the iPhone to Rival Spotify? | 8/6/2009 | See Source »

For the voracious consumer of movies and TV shows old and new, the Netflix mail-order rental service is both useful and annoying. It is also addictive. I speak as a four-at-a-time subscriber who carefully manages and updates his queue of titles, closely monitors their return to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Ways to Fix Netflix | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

Annoying, yes, but harmless, right? Not to hear their critics tell it. Hipsters manage to attract a loathing unique in its intensity. Critics have described the loosely defined group as smug, full of contradictions and, ultimately, the dead end of Western civilization.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hipsters | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

Biden's trip to Ukraine and Georgia was designed to balance Obama's Moscow visit. Washington wanted to reassure Russia's two neighbors that the U.S. has not forgotten them or their bids to join NATO without unduly annoying Moscow. (Read "Obama Treads Lightly on Democracy in Russia.")

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biden's Balancing Act in Georgia and Ukraine | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

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