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...painting was left pretty much with its aesthetic qualities, because most of the practical things you could do with painting were much more easily done with photography. Painting got increasingly abstract, increasingly tactile, and moved completely into the world of art. So maybe that's what will happen to books. But I sure hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Audrey Niffenegger on Her Ghostly New Novel | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...Unless, as O'Neil's thinking goes, he can make something happen in the stock market. So he spends much of his day watching CNBC. "Right now, I want to know which area of the economy is going to recover first. Will it be retail? Commodities? Energy?" says O'Neil. Playing the market is probably the wrong thing to do, but he got divorced eight years ago, depleting a good portion of his savings, and his medical bills are likely to go up soon. O'Neil is going blind from histoplasmosis. These days he has to golf with a friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why It's Time to Retire the 401(k) | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...lost absolutely all of its force, well, there wouldn't be any good reason to use it that much. As long as there is still some feeling that this is a sexual term, it will maintain some power. Sometimes I'm asked, like, what's going to happen when it becomes so commonplace that it doesn't really matter anymore, and I don't think that will happen in the foreseeable future. Even as taboos against it weaken, they are still there, and it is still usually the case that you're using this informally for effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Writing the Book on the F Word | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...cooks in the kitchen (in contrast, Favreau was the only screenwriter on Swingers). I'm fine with the original Trent ("money") and Mike (not "money," no matter what Trent said) moving to the suburbs, having kids, getting fat and spending weekends at Home Depot and Applebee's. These things happen. What's depressing is that there's hardly a creative spark in this sour, offensive, contrived story, and its sloppiness is more consistent than its comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Couples Retreat: The Glum-Married Pack | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...They are disproportionately male, disproportionately minority and disproportionately teachers of math, science and special education," says Petri, who has regularly sung the program's praises. Those three groups just happen to be the ones most lacking in the teaching profession, and TTT falls at the nexus of former President George W. Bush's call for more science, technology, engineering and math instructors and President Barack Obama's embrace of alternative teacher-certification programs. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Iraq to Class: Turning Troops into Teachers | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

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