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Often you distinguish between the people who are best remembered - maybe because they were the exceptions, the most creative - and the people who were the most popular at the time. What appealed to you about that approach? I suppose it's a way of [avoiding] the great man or woman theory of history and [instead] looking at what was the norm. It's important to distinguish between what we like and what was important to people listening to music in the moment. When you think about the French paintings in the late 19th century, we all think about Impressionism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did the Beatles Destroy Rock 'n' Roll? | 6/24/2009 | See Source »

...didn't wash that sweatshirt, because when you've helped one set of alien robots defeat another, you need a memento. But he shakes it out while preparing to leave for Princeton, unintentionally rebooting the whole conflict. The shard infuses him with great genius - the Cube being the source of all alien-robot knowledge - making him, once again, the Decepticons' main quarry. And once again, it takes director Michael Bay 144 minutes and a tremendous amount of firepower and heaving bosoms to re-vanquish the Decepticons. Even then, it still seems highly likely that the worst of them, a black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Falls Short | 6/24/2009 | See Source »

...fact, gone may be too strong a word. The Fed, and the rest of us, are in uncharted territory. We've just been through a financial shock that was in some ways worse than the one that set off the Great Depression. The policy response from the Fed and Congress was pretty much the diametric opposite of that of the early 1930s, so the hope is that things will turn out better this time. But we just don't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fed Holds Steady: Mixed Signals on the Economy | 6/24/2009 | See Source »

...revenue source for the future, while the construction and installation of wind turbines will employ workers here in the U.S. Investing in wind power, said President Barack Obama at a turbine factory in Iowa on Earth Day, "is a win-win. It's good for the environment; it's great for the economy." (See the top 10 green stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Wind Power Get Up to Speed? | 6/23/2009 | See Source »

...drugs and devices and Sally and Joe, the American people will revolt," Coelho says. "You'll get your jollies because you're bringing down the cost of health care, but you won't really be solving problems." The partnership's official position is essentially that more public research is great as long as it doesn't affect public policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Cut Health-Care Costs: Less Care, More Data | 6/23/2009 | See Source »

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