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Burning batteries are two words that Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer would never like to hear again. Before reports surfaced last summer that Sony-made lithium-ion batteries had an occasional tendency to fry Apple, Dell and other laptops, the boss of the sprawling Japanese media conglomerate was having a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Sony Got Game? | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

Yet after a massive voluntary recall of laptop batteries, Stringer turned opportunist, using the smoking cells as cover to clear out the vestiges of Sony's change-resistant culture. In Stringervision, the new Sony is led by software and linked horizontally across its vast product line. No more will the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Sony Got Game? | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

I guess the pornographic ads fooled me. See, when someone gets a hummer in a porno, the consumer reaps the benefits. American Apparel shoppers just get sperm all over their faces.

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: American Apparel: Not a Good Place to Shop | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

Opponents Say: If wages go up, those prices will be passed on to the consumer. A hike in the minimum wage will hurt small businesses that cannot afford to pay more. States with a higher minimum wage would not be as attractive to businesses as states with a lower minimum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Do You Think: Raising the Minimum Wage | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

California's Proposition 90, says Chris McKenzie, executive director of the California League of Cities, "is designed to eliminate virtually all government regulation." Environmentalists say that if it passes, California's coastal commission, unable to compensate everyone who wants to build along the oceanfront, would no longer be able to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Land Is My Land | 11/1/2006 | See Source »

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