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...collection The World's Wife, notable for having every poem written in the voice of a wife of a great historical figure, was the first to bring her mass appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carol Ann Duffy | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...appeal of so many of the fables Stan Lee and his colleagues have spun out for Marvel Comics is their confirmation of what any young reader may have thought about himself as his body changes and his mind reels: I'm a freak. To this Lee adds the fantasy: But your weirdness is a sign of preternatural abilities; you're odd because you're a hero. Spider-Man emits goo from his fingers, and he can fly. The Hulk gets mad and becomes bigger and stronger. Wolverine's Dragon Lady fingernails make him the toughest guy on the block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wolverine: There Ain't No Sanity Claws | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...draws? "Everything costs less here," she says. Constas bought a three-unit house and rents out two of the flats to visiting crew members. She even made some extra money when the director of an HBO pilot set some scenes in her apartment. But she says Michigan's appeal as a location goes beyond the dollar value. "It can double for almost anything. You can make one of the lakes look like an ocean. You can do rural. You can do gritty urban." (In Betty Anne Waters, the state also stands in for Boston and part of Rhode Island.) Shooting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Detroit | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...easy to see the appeal, if you look at the numbers. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that fully counting employer-provided health benefits as taxable income could bring as much as $246 billion a year into federal coffers. But the politics of taxing something that workers now believe they get for free would be treacherous. More likely than a total elimination of the favorable tax treatment is the prospect of putting some kind of limit on that deduction - forcing workers to pay taxes, for instance, if their employer offers a particularly lavish plan. Or lawmakers may come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Health-Care Reform Pay for Itself | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

Compared to your average laptop, netbooks lack specs appeal. These lightweights pack puny processors and tiny screens. But that's exactly what makes the netbook the perfect travel buddy. It'll slip in your hand luggage, so no need to lug around a separate laptop case. And while netbooks struggle to run memory-heavy apps, they're perfect for web-browsing, word-processing and e-mail. In other words, 99% of the stuff you use your bulky laptop for now. Here are three little wonders we recommend. (See the best inventions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Little Wonders: Three Netbooks Worth Owning | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

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