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Where PC makers wallow in confusion - some laptops include multiple types of mouse (touch pads and pointers), for instance - Apple has found a moment of Zen. The new MacBook has eliminated its single-button mouse altogether; every interaction now occurs via a glass touch pad. To select something, you simply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apple's Latest Hack: Aluminum Computers | 10/14/2008 | See Source »

The mood around New York City, as among mom-and-pop investors around the country, went from worry to confusion to, at times, cautious optimism, only to circle back to fear. At a panel discussion on Friday on the seventh floor of the New York Stock Exchange, JPMorgan Chase CEO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street Finale: Battling to Get to the Plus Side | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

I’d love to rip apart English professor James Wood’s distilled volume of literary wisdom with a series of detached, postmodern, snarling riffs. But I can’t. “How Fiction Works” is just too pleasant a read. With a...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'How Fiction Works' Works Just Fine, Thank You | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

Not surprisingly, current events are almost impossible to judge rationally from the headlines. Bill Isaac, former chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, recently described them as a “senseless destruction in the U.S. financial system” and a well-known executive exclaimed on the pages of...

Author: By Jan Zilinsky | Title: Lessons from the Financial Crisis | 10/7/2008 | See Source »

The worst for small businesses is the freezing of credit markets, says Pat Convery, president of the Howell Area Chamber of Commerce. "There's a lot of angst and confusion," she says. "People are almost afraid to turn on the radio or TV. No one knows what's coming next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Main Street Is Mad: Scenes from a Financial Crisis | 10/1/2008 | See Source »

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