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...with health. While 80% of Cheesecake Factory customers happily take home leftovers, at lunchtime those 80% feel like dorks for using the office refrigerator. So until 5 p.m., you can now order some dishes "lunch size." Although lunch size here seems to be the amount of food Shaq might eat to rev up for a game. The meat loaf came with the same mountain of gravied mashed potatoes and silo of corn as the normal size but with two pieces of meat loaf instead of three. And our weight-management salad was undentable. I went at it for almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Chain Restaurants' New Small Portions | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

...were plenty of food. But it's going to be hard to order them. Just as it's hard not to pay 10 more cents to go up a size for a Big Gulp. We live in a Costco big-box world, and to get me to think and eat small, you have to make your smaller offerings Prius cool. Instead of cutting the prices a few bucks, these places need to include a free beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Chain Restaurants' New Small Portions | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

Left standing are the great exceptions to the eat-or-be-eaten model, the family-owned companies behind the country's three best newspapers: the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. The Bancrofts were unique in their disengagement from the business they controlled. But their view of the company they inherited as a trust whose value exceeded the dividends it generated was shared by the more hands-on Sulzbergers of New York City and Grahams of Washington. "It's not just family ownership," says Alex Jones, director of Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murdoch vs. Family-Owned Newspapers | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

...whirlyball” in which two teams of players ride in bumper cars and throw a wiffleball into a goal using a plastic scoop. “We played about five rounds today. We thought we were just going to come here [afterward] and hang out and eat dinner,” Konopka said. “We didn’t know about any of this ‘Double Dare’ stuff.” However, band members said they enjoyed the battle. Konopka told a fan after the show, “it was fun! People...

Author: By Nicholas K. Tabor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ’Poon Double-Dares OK Go | 5/4/2007 | See Source »

...Pandas often have to be artificially inseminated because so many have lost the most primal of urges. When pandas reproduce, many cubs have to be cared for by zookeepers because the mothers take no interest in them. Over time, pandas have worked themselves into an impossible ecological niche. They eat almost nothing but bamboo shoots and then, depending upon their appetite at the moment, only certain varieties. If the right kind of bamboo is unavailable, they will starve to death. If ever there was an example of a species hell-bent on committing suicide, it is the giant panda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox: May 14, 2007 | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

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