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...trimmed 120 hours of footage to 111 minutes. Is the 111 some Michael numerology thing or purely a Mayan sign of the apocalypse? That's fun. I do like that number. Michael was the one and No. 1. I'm going to put that on my Twitter. Everywhere I look, there's meaning being read into it. People can't help themselves when it comes to Michael Jackson...
...book was a surprise mega best seller, with more than 4 million copies now in print worldwide. Levitt and Dubner became sought-after speakers and much-linked-to bloggers. They had made economics seem unexpectedly ... fun. "CSI: Economics," one observer called it. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...past couple of years, though, economics hasn't been fun. It's been scary. The quirky topics in which Levitt specializes have been pushed aside by the big questions of how to halt a financial crisis and fix an ailing global economy. Macroeconomics has overwhelmed microeconomics. Not that the macroeconomists have exactly covered themselves with glory. Queen Elizabeth II wondered aloud late last year how economists had missed the problems that brought on the financial crisis. This September, economist Paul Krugman lamented "the profession's blindness to the very possibility of catastrophic failures in a market economy," unleashing a bitter...
...last year’s Game. But even if the new rules lead to a decline in hospitalizations, there is such a thing as compromising too much in the name of safety. Were there no tailgate at all, hospitalizations would surely decline further. The balance that Yale strikes between fun and safety is more sensible than that prevailing at Harvard...
...Disneyland; the best in stem-cell research, fruits and vegetables, entertainment and fashion. (He was sporting a suit with a zebra-print lining.) "We're all about the cutting edge," he said. "I mean, come on. California is wild!" He's right about the schadenfreude, and it was fun to hear him say the word. It is easy to gloat when the cool jock with the hot girlfriend wrecks his sweet car, especially if he seems kind of smug. I was reminded of this during Rob Lowe's talk at the summit, when he declared that everyone has an obligation...