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These brooms, which were the priciest item on the team’s shopping list, were purchased to comply with Intercollegiate Quidditch Association (IQA) regulations. The team bought 14 Scarlet Hawk brooms—for a total of $583.10—from Alivan’s, a Florida-based company that markets Harry Potter-themed products...

Author: By Julie M. Zauzmer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Club Quidditch Team Works Budget Magic | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

...when it opens next year, will be the new claimant for the title.) "And at the end of the day," he says, "you have to remember that this is still a hotel, and the key to success is the same as at any hotel." That means ensuring that every item a guest could conceivably request, from toothpaste to ketchup to adaptors, can be readily accessed by housekeeping staff. "You have to think of this as a vertical city," Sadones explains. "Once you come up to the top, you don't go down again. Everything must be precise." (See pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shanghai High Life | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

When traffic in Jakarta snarls to a stop - as it so often does in the Indonesian capital - swarms of peddlers besiege occupants of air-conditioned cars, offering up everything from roasted peanut to balloons. Lately, though, the street vendors have added another item to their eclectic wares: posters of the country's recently re-elected President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The hawking of new merchandise in some of the world's worst gridlock is a fitting metaphor for a country that hopes to add a second I to the so-called BRIC emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China. Just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia's President Promises Huge Annual Growth | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

...public also got the chance to vote on what they would save during a showdown between five of the university's professors, each of whom passionately defended an item dear to their hearts: a mass-produced gouache painting of Mt. Vesuvius, a marsupial mole preserved in formaldehyde, a 1960s toy car, an ancient fragment of painted wall plaster from what is now a London suburb and a collection of Victorian-era death masks. One professor put it best: "These objects don't have an intrinsic value." But each has an interesting back-story. The toy car, for example, belonged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: London Museum Asks Public What to Pitch | 11/14/2009 | See Source »

...however, the idea that he might bring down health care reform - the biggest item on the Democratic agenda - sticks in many a liberal's craw. "The overwhelming majority of the American people want a public option. And I think if you break it down even further, over 80% of Democrats - and this is going to be a Democratic bill - want a public option," says Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the only other independent in the Senate. Sanders was one of a handful of Dems who voted to boot Lieberman from the party back in January and says that if given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the Dems Keep Putting Up with Joe Lieberman? | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

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