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Where you decide to take your loved one is totally up to you, but the best advice I can give is to take care of all the planning - every excruciating detail. With increased airline security and regulations, fee hikes, crowded planes, not to mention less expendable cash all around, traveling can be stressful for people, especially around the holidays. You can prevent unnecessary anxiety by preparing for every contingency. The couples I spoke with all said they were at least as grateful - if not more - for their partners' planning as for their paying. It seems that sometimes it's still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love Your Partner? Send Him Away! | 12/26/2008 | See Source »

...explains Cambridge in great detail because he knows his American readers won't have the faintest idea of how England works," says Christopher Stray, a professor of classics at England's Swansea University and the man responsible for the reprinting of the book, published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An American at Cambridge: Hot Victorian Sex! | 12/23/2008 | See Source »

...classicism of Disney's earlier films could in no way be translated literally to the stage - and that inspired directors like Julie Taymor (The Lion King) and Francesca Zambello (The Little Mermaid) to come up with unique, often inspired stage equivalents. Computer animation, however, adds a level of realistic detail - nuances of facial expression, a more subtle, offhand approach to comedy - that seems to demand a more literal approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shrek Comes to Broadway: No Happy Ending | 12/18/2008 | See Source »

...enough unproductive land. Perhaps advanced biofuels from crop waste or even municipal waste would work better. In any case, it was interesting to see Obama make two references Wednesday to "advanced biofuels" and none to ethanol. And it's interesting that Vilsack has thought about this stuff in some detail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vilsack: Some Hard Choices on Ethanol | 12/18/2008 | See Source »

...executive vice president for international sales and marketing, said that the decision to cancel the cooperation agreement was made jointly by both companies because they "have realized that the economic situation and market environment around the world have changed significantly since the agreement was signed." Neither company explained in detail why the discussions on the joint project, which began in 2007, fell apart. But Lin Huaibin, an auto industry analyst at research firm Global Insight in Shanghai, believes both companies brought problems to the partnership. Chery, he says, wasn't ready to produce a car of strong enough quality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Booming Car Market Shifts into Reverse | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

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