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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Kong who was able to turn his small wedding boutique into a regional chain with his own line in department stores because of the efficiencies that flowed from making his dresses in China. Those stores employed American workers and helped women of modest means realize their wedding dreams. You could fill a year's worth of magazines with similar examples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can an Eagle Hug a Panda? | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

Nabokov spent his last years in a grand hotel in Montreux, Switzerland--after Lolita he could afford it--working on a novel called The Original of Laura. But he died before he could finish it, leaving behind a box of 138 index cards that he instructed Vera to destroy. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Piecing Together Nabokov's Last Novel | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...Dmitri Nabokov has published The Original of Laura (Knopf; 278 pages)--what there is of it--in an elegant edition, priced at $35, that reproduces each index card on a single page. "Nabokov intended to win his 100-card dash against death but, given the course of events, could not foresee the exact form in which the book would ultimately appear," Dmitri explains in a written interview with TIME. "He was sure, however, that it would appear. He had been working on the novel since 1974 and, when asked in 1976 what three favorite books he was reading and would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Piecing Together Nabokov's Last Novel | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...Karsh, who is a huge fan of the show and had just watched Gillespie make that dish on TV a few days earlier, didn't see it that way. "I wish I could taste what I see on TV," he said. "They used fresh ingredients. By the time this gets to you, it's a salty mush. I'm sure Kevin didn't put guar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Top Chef TV Dinners Live Up to Billing? | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the state of North Carolina guarantees her premium-free health insurance that will cover 80% of her health care costs for life. But's there's a hitch: she can't gain too much weight or start smoking. If she does, she could be on the hook for an additional 10% of her health care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fat Fees and Smoker Surcharges: Tough-Love Health Incentives | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

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