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...claim continually that cutting capital-gains taxes will help ordinary Americans is either disingenuous or an outright lie. The vast majority of these taxes are paid by the superwealthy, and cutting these taxes will help only them. Daren Perlstein LA CAŃADA FLINTRIDGE, CALIF...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...promoted the Simon Bolivar to a much greater extent than its predecessors, President Chávez has largely refrained from brandishing the orchestra as a propaganda tool of his "21st-century socialism"; at the same time, neither his Venezuelan opposition nor Washington has tried with much force to claim the Simon Bolivar, founded in 1975, as a cultural showcase of Venezuela B.C. (Before Chávez). (Read about Chávez and Venezuela's student opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Venezuela's Famed Youth Orchestra Visits U.S. | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

...free burgers and fries from b.good taped to it. Seconds later, b.good CEO and co-founder Jon J. Olinto updated the company’s Twitter account “b_good_” with a cellphone picture and an invitation for its 151 Twitter followers to come claim the vouchers.Twitter, a three-year-old microblogging service, has millions of users who post steady streams of short updates called “tweets” that are limited to 140 characters. Twitter’s user base swelled 900% last year. Companies, in turn, are quickly catching onto...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Square Shops Embrace Twitter | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

...List. Bump up to a better airline lifestyle on Southwest: the airline's Rapid Rewards frequent flyer program will grant you "A-List" status if you fly five round-trips before June 15. A-Listers get the coveted "A" boarding pass, which allows you to board early and claim your preferred seat, plus access to priority Fly By airport security lanes. A-List status is valid through December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hotel Freebies: Yoga Classes and Spa Treatments | 4/5/2009 | See Source »

...China. "We are the world's number one," says Zheng Xiaoting, director and keeper of the Tianyu (which means "universe" in Chinese) Natural History Museum's collection of thousands of dinosaur fossils. Though no official records of the collection's number exist, several Chinese paleontologists echo Zheng's claim that Tianyu houses the world's largest collection of dinosaur fossils. "In 10 years' time," says Zheng, who runs the largest business in town, a lucrative state-owned gold mine, which owns the museum, "Tianyu will really put our small town on the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Dinosaur Fossils: Vast, but Are They Real? | 4/5/2009 | See Source »

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