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Back at our desks come Tuesday, sunburned and a bit disoriented, we flash a cunning grin when a co-worker asks, "How was your weekend?" We feel as if we've beaten the system. Isn't that what we're really after? > Watch for Po Bronson's frequent columns on time.com
...word," says Phil Lempert, editor of Supermarketguru.com, "but in my book canned or frozen fruits and veggies are actually better because they're packed when they're fresh and they're a lot cheaper." Birds Eye has a new product out called Steamfresh, which consists of flash-frozen vegetables packed in a bag designed to be steam-cooked in a microwave. The process is intended to help consumers cook vegetables in less than five minutes without boiling away their nutritional value and without the nuisance of pots to clean. "Some products come with too much buttery sauce," Lempert says. "Just...
...most of the youthful energy that became known as hip-hop could be contained in a tiny seven-mile circle." That circle was the Bronx, an economically ravaged borough of New York City that was home to such nascent cultural heroes as DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash, who were busily rewiring turntables and re-engineering the powder-keg racial politics of their home turf and in the process creating the future of American popular culture. Obsessively researched, beautifully written, Chang's book is the funky, bootleg, B-side remix of late--20th century American history...
...news broke to the public at 3:37 a.m. Washington time, with the first "flash" from The Associated Press since the death of Pope John Paul II in April 2005. But the President had learned of it 11 hours earlier, in an Oval Office meeting with a few top aides. White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley told Bush that "there had been a strike in Baquba and they thought that they had gotten al-Zarqawi." Snow said the President responded with understatement: "That would be a good thing." Bush appeared relieved and pleased...
...spoke in a voice that is well-known around campus. When Wilson returned, her roommate told her, “Oh my God, Larry just called!” University President Lawrence H. Summers had phoned to say he thought “Shaniqua,” a flash animation created by Wilson, was funny. (Summers, through a spokesman, confirmed that he had called Wilson.) In “Shaniqua”, a caricature of Summers raps the lyrics “Shaniqua don’t live here no more”—a line taken from...