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.../Fantasy: "My precious" (Lord of the Rings); Runner-Up: "You're gonna need a bigger boat" (Jaws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rosebud! Stella! 100 Movie Lines in 200 Seconds | 6/9/2009 | See Source »

...That rise in indebtedness is now giving way to what looks to be a long slide. At least, it had better be; if consumers start piling on debt again, we'll just have another, bigger credit crisis in a few years. But if they keep increasing their savings rate and reducing their debt loads, that's bad news for corporate profits, not just bank profits. Anybody who makes things that in recent years were bought on credit, from houses to washing machines to cars, is likely to be affected. So are stock prices. "Higher borrowing produces both higher profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economic Recovery: Will Corporate Profits Recoup? | 6/9/2009 | See Source »

...clubs and church socials in his hometown, Dallas, and worked his way up to four nights a week, 40 weeks a year, at comedy clubs. "I was making between $600,000 and a million a year," he says. Not bad for a guy and a dummy, but Dunham had bigger plans. "I knew if we could let the masses see it and not just the comedy-club fans, then it would explode," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Puppet Master | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

Politics aside, the foreseeable future looks pretty bright for those in front of the SUP wave. Says Chambers, "When I started the company, it was pretty obvious that it had the potential to be bigger than windsurfing. Then I thought, 'This is going to be as big as surfing.' And now I think it's going to be bigger than windsurfing, kitesurfing, surfing - everything put together - because it can be done anywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's SUP? A Surf Sport That Needs No Ocean | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...seen as a test for the upcoming federal elections. "I don't think you can reach any conclusions when the turnout for the European elections was so low," says Social Democrat MP Sebastian Edathy. "It's a different picture in the federal elections, when we normally have a bigger turnout of 70%-80%." Nevertheless, Edathy admits his party failed to reach out to its traditional supporters. "The SPD failed to mobilize its voters," he says. "But that is often the problem with European elections because our regular voters weren't able to relate to any European issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: European Elections: A Blow to Brown, Boost for Merkel | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

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