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...bored, even though Jeff's wife didn't look bored at all. But most people closed the party, then the bar and then went upstairs to Colleen's suite. And apparently the potent mixture of nostalgia, Coors Light and a $122 investment caused some possibly otherwise married people to hook up. This, it turns out, is the reason spouses go to reunions. I'm definitely going to Cassandra's. Sure, it was an all-girls school, but I'm not taking any chances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slow Times At My 20th High School Reunion | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

...article, "Hooking Up for Sex: Sluts or New Feministx" features the dispute as part of its exploration of the custom of hook-ups and its relationship to feminism...

Author: By Amira Abulafi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: TLR Debate, Continued...in a National Forum? | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...former Unilever executive, grew so disgusted with the scenes of degradation on Italian television that she made her own video to raise awareness of the problem, splicing together clips from shows. The closing shot, from a show called Joking Apart, shows a woman in a thong hung on a hook in a meat locker, next to the bloody carcasses. "Women come up to me and say, 'Listen, I've been watching television for a long time, but I didn't realize,'" she says, her eyes welling with tears. Zanardo says that some Italians have opted out of their society. "People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Silvio Berlusconi Uses Women on TV | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...Carolina at Charlotte, the state of North Carolina guarantees her premium-free health insurance that will cover 80% of her health care costs for life. But's there's a hitch: she can't gain too much weight or start smoking. If she does, she could be on the hook for an additional 10% of her health care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fat Fees and Smoker Surcharges: Tough-Love Health Incentives | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...also realize that part of what got us here was overspending, and that that overspending was fostered by a shopping culture that uses cheap goods to hook people on feeling like they're winning at something. As a country, we held nearly $1 trillion in credit-card debt this time last year-about the same as the value of all the goods and services produced in South Korea annually. We've bought so much stuff that we've struggled to find places to fit it all. The U.S. went from having 300 million square feet of self-storage space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Big Shopping Bargains Are Bad News For America | 11/27/2009 | See Source »

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