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Nor is this phenomenon limited to ZIP codes where every Volvo wagon just has to have a University of Chicago sticker on it. "I'm having exactly the same conversations with coaches, teachers, parents, counselors, whether I'm in Wichita or northern Canada or South America," says Honoré. His...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Growing Backlash Against Overparenting | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

Picture a military made up of psychically gifted soldiers who can walk through walls, stare animals to death and whose primary weapons are subliminal music, disarming hugs and symbols of peace (like baby lambs). In 1979, a lieut. colonel in the U.S. Army named Jim Channon imagined just that, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men Who Stare at Goats Author Jon Ronson | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

Sergio Marchionne, the gifted executive who saved Italy's Fiat Group from a destructive meltdown earlier in the decade and then convinced the Obama Administration that he could revive the bankrupt Chrysler Group LLC, tried on Wednesday to dispel speculation that the struggling automaker was beyond help. "We want Chrysler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amid Tumbling Sales, Chrysler Looks to Future | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

While Ishiguro’s depiction of the confrontation with failure appears wanting, his examination of protective psychological mechanisms remains one of the strongest points of the collection, underscoring both life’s pathos and surrealism. Ishiguro examines the absurdity of how humans protect themselves from the outside world...

Author: By Sophie O. Duvernoy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ishiguro Releases an Accomplished But Mild Collection | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

The movie is worlds removed from another making-of concert doc, Madonna's calculatedly scandalous Truth or Dare, and closer to old let's-put-on-a-show musicals like the Busby Berkeley 42nd Street, the Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney Babes in Arms and the Broadway standard A Chorus Line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Jackson's This Is It Review: He's Still a Thriller | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

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