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...What's more, industry watchers say credit card and auto lending has actually held up quite well despite the credit crunch. According to market research firm Synovate, the average consumer probably has a higher limit and therefore can spend more on their credit card than they could a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paulson Credit-Card Bailout Draws Growing Criticism | 11/16/2008 | See Source »

...with his move to America. In 1985, after hearing a lecture by Transcendental Meditation guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Chopra became interested in Ayurveda, an ancient Indian science of healthy living based on an understanding that the physical body has its roots in the world of spirit. Convinced that it held secrets the modern world was in dire need of, Chopra turned his life around. He stopped the cigarettes and alcohol and plunged into a study of Ayurveda and other sciences of traditional healing. Soon he was downloading In-dia's vast corpus of wisdom on the subject into a series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Age Supersage | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...books, the proceedings finish up with clearly laid-out instructions to help the reader find the magic lying at the heart of his or her own world. "Life is set up to bring you every needed situation in its own right time." "Judgment is a negative belief system held in place by stuck energy." "Fear is the spiritual opposite of love." And so forth. "Damn it," Jess remarks at one point in his adventure. "I was caught between sobbing and screaming. En-chantment overload will do that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Age Supersage | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...Gesta’s decision to leave his former position in France was validated, though—he soon learned that Kahn held weekly individual meetings with each of his 12 to 15 post-docs...

Author: By Joseph P. Shivers, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Med School’s Sweetest Professor Wins Award | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...mail sent around ahead of the prank solicited volunteers for such posts as a "digital fun squad," "legal support" and "press liaison." The media gossip blog Gawker printed a bulletin supposedly from the organizers that told volunteers to find strategically located U-Haul trucks (which held the papers) around the city. Going for an ultimate guerilla effect, the bulletin said, "We want to maintain maximum mystery around this, for as long as possible - at least for a couple of days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No, the War Is Not Over | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

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