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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Susan's fellow monsters have a feckless charm, but they're all but useless in approaching the job at hand. Susan/Ginormica does all the heavy lifting, literally and figuratively. The guys are there for what many women think men were put on earth to provide: comic relief. Outside the core...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monsters vs Aliens: A 3-D Doozy | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

We knew, in our heart of hearts, that something had to give. Remember when each decade, not long after it finished, assumed a distinct character? We all knew and know what "the '50s" mean, and they definitively ended with the Pill, J.F.K.'s assassination and the Beatles - just as "the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of Excess: Is This Crisis Good for America? | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

Convincing Laborites to join ranks with their longtime ideological rivals on the right was a tough sell for Barak. During his speech at the party convention in Tel Aviv, Barak's voice sounded squeaky and defensive. He called for "national responsibility," but this was dismissed by booing younger cadres as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Labor and Likud Govern Israel Together? | 3/25/2009 | See Source »

He wasn't really Shaq. He couldn't have been. The person known on Twitter as THE_REAL_SHAQ sometimes posted more than 50 Tweets - 140-character dispatches - daily, broadcasting his thoughts, actions and feelings to some 327,000 subscribers to his Twitter feed. Surely the four-time NBA champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Celebrity Twittering: Is That Really You, Shaq? | 3/24/2009 | See Source »

Somewhere Dan Quayle is clenching his fists. Two decades after the then Vice President bemoaned single motherhood - calling out the sitcom Murphy Brown for having its eponymous main character choose to have a child on her own - the latest data on U.S. births show that a full 40% of babies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Boom in Adult Single Motherhood | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

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