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...popularity of Mills & Boon - they sell one book every three seconds in the U.K., which amounts to around 10.5 million per year - provides an opening to expand its fan base. They hope the series will arouse excitement among rugby moms who cart their children to and from practices, and perhaps introduce the sport to the uninitiated. "The beauty of rugby is that you have every shape and size of hunky man," says Jane Barron, licensing and marketing manager for the RFU. "And just think of the different positions!" Mills & Boon have happily jumped in bed with the RFU because, Hutton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Rugby and Romance Be a Match Made in Publishing Heaven? | 1/12/2009 | See Source »

Take, for instance, Altagracia Familia, a former schoolteacher in the Dominican Republic who now lives in New York City and sells empanadas and coconut sweets. Her vending cart used to be wooden, but then she upgraded to metal. Not by way of a loan, though. Familia slowly saved profits and bought a new cart once she had amassed $7,000. What she spent her Grameen loan on is much less flashy: ingredients and cart repairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Microfinance Make It in America? | 1/11/2009 | See Source »

...Others, however, strongly support Hume’s greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely a problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides...

Author: By Donald Carswell | Title: Beating the System | 1/11/2009 | See Source »

...attached to the offer, only an enticing lunch box on her outstretched arm. And I had been addressed politely, an antiquated notion of civility other airlines had led me to give up on. Further surprising me, the attendant returned after lunch for a second time with a beverage cart. “We’re offering a complimentary second beverage to wash down lunch. Would you like something else to drink?” Had I fallen asleep and woken up in the ’90s? No—I had merely booked my flight with Continental Airlines...

Author: By Matthew H. Ghazarian | Title: No Free Lunch | 1/11/2009 | See Source »

After loading his clubs onto a cart, Obama, wearing sunglasses, a white shirt, khaki shorts, white and brown golf shoes, and a red baseball cap emblazoned with the City and County of Honolulu's Ocean Safety logo, drove down to the driving range. Standing next to Whitaker, Obama , with a white glove on his right hand, took three practice swings. His first shot was a ground ball straight ahead. His next shot went airborne but created a divot that Obama walked out to pick up and replace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Good is Barack Obama at Golf? | 12/31/2008 | See Source »

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