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Guard your Grand Slam breakfasts, people. The recession has hit casual-dining chains like Denny's, Chili's and the Cheesecake Factory particularly hard, as consumers have traded down to less expensive fare at McDonald's. To draw more customers, Denny's is sponsoring shindigs like this one, building on its reputation as an after-party haven for young, hungry drunks (and, the company is quick to point out, sober people too). From 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., the 56-year-old chain has started playing alternative-rock music in its restaurants. It has sponsored more than 30 emerging bands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rocking Out at Denny's? | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...Francisco-based activist turned entrepreneur. "Boycotting, protesting, lawsuits - it's about going into attack mode," says the former Googler and onetime game developer. "What's unique about a Carrotmob is that there are no enemies." The focus is on positive cooperation, using the power of the casual consumer to help save the planet. (See pictures of a grocery-store auction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shoppers, Unite! Carrotmobs Are Cooler than Boycotts | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

...It’s a casual attitude that is on full display in the classroom, where he has been known to keep his e-mail open on the projector screen during class and ask students to grade their own classmates’ papers. At a recent meeting of one of his spring “American Jury” classes, Nesson sat in the audience watching as a group of his students showed a clip from the popular reality show “Survivor” and then conducted a mock trial based on the show?...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Building the Public Domain, Part I | 5/9/2009 | See Source »

...club activity, but if you are looking for one of America's most popular college sports, look no farther than the MAC quad on a sunny day. Frisbee, which boasts levels ranging from casual throwing to "ultimate" competition, has nestled its way into the collegiate mainstream with hundreds of teams across the nation. The highest echelon of this burgeoning sport was on display last weekend, as Harvard's two "A" squads—the men's Redline and women's Quasars—traveled to Hanover, N.H. to compete in the New England College Regionals. To see how the Crimson...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield | Title: Redline, Quasars Burn Out at Regionals | 5/9/2009 | See Source »

...currently identified as a "placeholder." That does not sound like a lot to money people when compared with the $3.4 trillion budget, but that is only testament to the extent to which the public is inured to fantastic sums of government spending. The $250 billion is such a casual amount in the eyes of the budget's authors that the White House said "It is there just in case that money may be needed." (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trying to Uncover the Hidden TARP Fund | 5/8/2009 | See Source »

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