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...fundamentally different sites, the latter is currently in the ascendant - so much so that a book devoted to MySpace's origins seems almost dated. Angwin doesn't leave the reader with a clear picture of how the site will continue to grow, but this may be out of the author's control. Perhaps MySpace isn't quite sure about that either...
Suze Orman The personal-finance guru and best-selling author is a former TIME 100 honoree Sheila Bair, chairwoman of the FDIC, was one of the first government officials to recognize the danger of the subprime crisis and was relentless in fighting for a temporary increase on the limits of FDIC insurance. Because of her efforts, your FDIC-insured deposits are safe and sound...
...Shahar, who is the author of Happier (2007) and a new book, The Pursuit of Perfect (April 2009), describes realistic optimists as "optimalists" - not those who believe everything happens for the best, but those who make the best of things that happen...
...time we finish high school, most of us know Henry David Thoreau as "the eccentric who went into the wild to live monastically," as Robert Sullivan puts it--an image that Sullivan, author of the rodent history Rats, says is entirely wrong. The man who penned Walden and Civil Disobedience was eminently sociable, quite funny and more interested in social critique than in actually persuading people to shun society and live in a shack in the woods. Walden was "written to inspire modern citizens to break out from the lockstep of culture and in so doing make a new connection...
...topic to want to see for himself. He watched the force feeding regimen on farms from California to upstate New York to France, interviewed the dedicated (and often aggressive) animal activists who are trying to shut down the industry and, along the way, confronted his own food demons. Caro, author of a new book about the debate, The Foie Gras Wars, talked to TIME about why Donald Duck is a force to be reckoned with, the true goals of the animal rights camp and why he won't be craving foie gras any time soon. (See TIME's Summer Journey...