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Offsetting these increases is a 1.7% drop in prices for goods like cars, clothing and computers, which account for 23% of spending. Through productivity gains at home and cheap labor abroad, manufacturers have kept prices low. That's something a dentist or restaurant owner, with less flexible rent and labor costs, can't easily do. Food and energy prices (the remaining 21% of spending) have been rising (energy sharply) over the past few months but are expected to fall later this year. If you include them, the overall CPI was up 2.2% in April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deflation: Why Aren't Your Prices Falling? | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

...Alexander Gould)--the one survivor, handicapped with an underdeveloped fin--and Marlin, burdened with an overdeveloped sense of dread. When Nemo is old enough for fish school, Dad's pessimism is again validated: the lad defiantly swims into open water, where he is scooped up by an angler--a dentist, with an aquarium in his office and a nasty, piscicidal little niece he can't wait to give this cute clown fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hook, Line and Thinker | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

Nemo's fish-out-of-water plot was hatched back in 1992, when Stanton visited Marine World in Vallejo, Calif. His feelings of protectiveness toward his own boy Ben (now 10, and the brother of Audrey, 7) inspired the father-son story; a dentist's office fish tank, remembered from his childhood in Rockport, Mass., provided a second location for the drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hook, Line and Thinker | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

...wondering why WOODY ALLEN isn't holding a movie camera, that's because for the first time he's directing a play, his own Writer's Block, which opens off-Broadway next week. Details about the production are scarce. "I'm the wife of a dentist, living in Connecticut," says actress BEBE NEUWIRTH. "It's sort of a living-room sex farce." So what's it like working with the 67-year-old auteur? "He speaks very simply," says Neuwirth. "There's nothing very fancy going on. There's no intellectual conceptual bull____ going on." God knows, Lilith would never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 12, 2003 | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

...joke that mutated into a hundred variations on the Web, a guest leans over at a White House dinner and asks Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair what they are discussing. "World War III," Blair replies. "We're going to kill 14 million Arabs and one dentist." When the perplexed guest asks why a dentist should be killed, Bush slaps Blair on the back and says, "What did I tell you? Nobody is going to care about the 14 million Arabs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A 'Baghdad Spring'? | 5/9/2003 | See Source »

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