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...Gettelfinger indicated that the union also expects the combination of concession and federal aid to prevent automakers from shifting more jobs out of the United States. "We support the creation of an oversight board to make sure the investment stays in this country. We would not support using taxpayer money out of the United States," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UAW agrees to Concessions With Automakers | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...assumed the role of cellar master at the Benedictine Abbey of Hautvilliers in 1668, his goal, he said, was to "make the best wine in the world." Through extensive experimentation, he developed the méthode champenoise, a series of techniques to produce a clear, effervescent wine. On tasting his creation, Pérignon reportedly exclaimed, "I'm drinking stars." His contemporaries must have agreed. Before long, Pérignon's Champagne was the toast of Louis XIV's Versailles and inextricably entwined with the escapades that went on there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Bubble | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

...print magazines. With pornography comprising 25% of all Internet searches, according to GOOD magazine's estimate, magazines have seen their readership dwindle. Many, battered by declining ad revenues and shrinking circulation, have closed up shop. Last month, after serving for 35 years as the rejoinder to Hef's iconic creation, Playgirl magazine went to press for the last time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girlie Mags | 12/1/2008 | See Source »

Kennedy was also involved in the creation of the Institute of Politics, which commemorates his brother John F. Kennedy ’40, and he serves as a member of the IOP’s Senior Advisory Committee...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard To Honor Ted Kennedy | 11/30/2008 | See Source »

...purity of form. In effect, it was a Chinese form of gymnastics, and Chinese officialdom was rather proud of it, making it an integral part of the country's cultural-exchange program. It reached thousands of foreign spectators, who fancied they were watching something ancient instead of the hypermodern creation of a socialist state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Liberation of Jet Li | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

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