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...were really expensive, but I was ecstatic when we finally got the Clash song "Train in Vain (Stand By Me)" and he sang it so well, just hit it out of the park. With Zooey, I tried to get "These Boots Were Made for Walking," and we couldn't clear that one, but for the right price, the publisher said, there was another song written by Lee Hazlewood, "Sugar Town." And there was another case where Zooey sang it just brilliantly, and it works so well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building the Perfect Romantic-Comedy Mix Tape | 7/31/2009 | See Source »

Marmur, like most other dermatologists, says the message of the IARC report is clear: "What I'm really hoping for is that people will opt out of using tanning beds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Assessing the Risks of Tanning Beds | 7/31/2009 | See Source »

...Malcolm Gladwell relates in Outliers, Korean Airlines had a terrible safety record in the early 1990s because co-pilots would not correct their pilots. Korea also loses a lot of potentially excellent, young leaders because of this cultural issue. They feel under-qualified not by their lack of clear reasoning but by their lack of gray hair. On the flip side, older leaders become complacent in their positions not because of their abilities, but because of their age. This doesn’t mean that all 20-somethings possess clear reasoning or that elder Korean leaders lack abilities, just that...

Author: By Anita J Joseph | Title: The Age Handicap | 7/31/2009 | See Source »

...better off at a lower weight," Walter Willett, chairman of the nutrition department at Harvard's School of Public Health, told the New York Times in early July. "There's been this misconception, fostered by the weight-is-beautiful groups, that weight doesn't matter. But the data are clear." NAAFA's public-relations director, Peggy Howell, says her group doesn't encourage anyone to lead an unhealthy lifestyle but recognizes that for some people weight loss isn't possible. "We don't encourage people to get fat," Howell says. A 2008 Yale University study suggests weight discrimination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fat-Acceptance Movement | 7/31/2009 | See Source »

Palin, Sarah • bill banning a beloved pastime of - shooting defenseless animals from aircraft - is introduced in the Senate • Clear Channel is not interested in syndicating a radio show hosted by, so we may never get to hear blithering twaddle like this • demagoguery of is noted by Carl Bernstein and Maureen Dowd • hated reporters are told by that "our troops are willing to die for you" so "how 'bout ya quit makin' things up" in honor of the American soldiers so grotesquely exploited by • quitting speech of is ridiculed by Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 7/31/2009 | See Source »

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