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...decked out in 34 carats worth of white and black diamonds, which sparkle down to her heels, complete with a 24-karat-gold chain bracelet on her left wrist. The convention did boast some lower-priced vintage dolls, ranging from $500 to $2,000 a pop. Collectors could even find Barbie accessories: one Barbie toaster with two pieces of toast, $3; an authentic Barbie silver-bodiced dress, $195; and long brown gloves with a fur-trimmed scarf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barbie's 50th Birthday Convention | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...while money can't buy love, counting it could help you find that special person. "Maybe young men who are going out to bars to try to meet women should count money," muses Baumeister. "I gather they have to approach a lot and get rejected a lot. I am not a specialist in bars, but it would make the men feel strong and probably make them not as bothered about being rejected over and over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Counting Money Can Make You Happier | 7/25/2009 | See Source »

...experience leads to the lessening of the occurrence of racial profiling, then I would find that enormously gratifying," Gates wrote in a statement on the website of the African American culture magazine The Root, of which he is editor-in-chief. "Because, in the end, this is not about me at all; it is about the creation of a society in which 'equal justice before law' is a lived reality...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tempering Demands for Apology, Gates Accepts Obama Beer Offer | 7/25/2009 | See Source »

...naturally going to ruffle feathers, to put it lightly." Zardari is already burdened by unpopularity, public anger at power cuts and prices, and the challenges of taming Islamist militancy. If the Supreme Court continues to flex its muscles and revisits the president's old corruption cases, he could find himself in even more trouble than Musharraf seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan's Activist Judges Target Musharraf | 7/25/2009 | See Source »

...there are some caveats to the scheme's success. First, it's primarily aimed at individuals who already have jobs or unemployed or retired people who yearn to try their hand at a service they think might find a market. Because of that, new companies created by auto-entrepreneurs start out as single-person operations and usually as part-time or moonlighting ventures. If business starts booming, neophyte owners seeking to expand by taking on employees have to register under the normal labor regime, which means assuming the taxes and salary-linked social charges that prove so dissuasive to many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In France, a Government-Led Revolution in Entrepreneurship | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

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