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Other sports stars have re-emerged to save a struggling franchise, like Michael Jordan, who proclaimed his 1995 return to the Chicago Bulls after a failed bid at pro baseball with a two-word press release: "I'm back." The deathless Rocky franchise aside, the "sweet science" seems to specialize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Un-Retirement | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

Ted Murphy, founder and CEO of Izea, says more than 10,000 Twitter users have signed up for Sponsored Tweets since early August. About 700 advertisers, mostly small to medium-size businesses, plus a handful of FORTUNE 500 companies, are using the platform. Marketers have access to the entire database...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brought to You by Twitter | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

The problems haven't discouraged other jatropha proponents, either. For several years, Titus Kisavi traveled the region encouraging farmers to grow the plant, earning a commission from development groups for the seeds he sold. These days, however, he doesn't have a job and he spends his afternoons at a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How a Biofuel 'Miracle' Ruined Kenyan Farmers | 10/4/2009 | See Source »

Cities are getting in on the act too. At the end of October, San Francisco will launch Art in Storefronts, a collaboration between the Office of Economic and Workforce Development and the San Francisco Arts Commission that will fill 20 unused storefronts in four neighborhoods with the work of local...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 'Vacancy' Blight: Finding New Uses for Empty Stores | 10/3/2009 | See Source »

Prime Minister Brian Cowen said he was delighted by the "decisive" vote. "Today we have done the right thing for our own future and the future of our children," he said. Cowen's relief was echoed across the whole of the E.U., where leaders had been watching the result as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Irish Ayes on Lisbon Treaty Have Europe Smiling | 10/3/2009 | See Source »

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