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Mobile Menu. Feed your pumpkin-pie sugar high at the Dessert Truck, parked in New York City's Midtown. The truck's famous bread pudding and dark chocolate mousse bombe are cooked up by former Le Cirque pastry sous chef Jerome Chang. It's high-end food at street-level prices, the new recession-era way to eat. The Dessert Truck is parked on Park Avenue, between 51st and 53rd Streets on weekdays from noon to 4 p.m.; at night, from 6 p.m. to midnight, it's at Third Avenue and 8th Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel News: A Green Hotel Made Just for Do-Gooders | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

...TIME?" Over the next seven years his fame increased exponentially, but he was unable to completely enjoy it and ended up engaging over 20 different Buddhist teachers. "The main idea taught by the different kinds of Buddhism," he says, "is that the lower you put yourself on the priority level, the happier you become." Surveying the wrecked lobby of his Maldives hotel, Li recalled this lesson, and decided that philanthropy - a thing he had vaguely imagined doing in retirement - was not something that could be indefinitely deferred. Three years later, he had cleared his film commitments and established...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Liberation of Jet Li | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

...commissioner be chosen from the country's east, but Acting PNTL Commissioner Afonso de Jesus dismisses it as scaremongering. "I don't believe any of this," he says. "We have a strong structure. In 2006, the police split at the top but not down the bottom. At the lower level all the police remained the same." And he is upbeat about his men's ability. "Though we lack support and logistics, as Timorese we will sacrifice those things to do this job." Former U.N. adviser Rees is also optimistic. "Dili is a safer city than it has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missing the Beat | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

...good news for gays contained in the ruling, the decision is hardly the last word on the issue. The state has vowed to appeal, and the issue is likely to end up before the Florida Supreme Court, which upheld the ban once before in 1995. On the federal level, the U.S. Supreme Court has already let stand lower court rulings that upheld Florida's law, the nation's strictest ban on gay adoption. (See a video on the backlash against gay marriage in Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fight Over Gay Adoption Heats Up | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

Meanwhile, conservative activists across the country are working hard to make sure that no court, at any level, has the final word on gay adoption. Like gay marriage before it, conservatives are looking at the issue of who can raise children as one best decided at the ballot box, not in the courthouse. Those efforts received a boost on election day in Arkansas, where voters easily passed a law that restricts any unmarried couple living together from adopting children. Arkansas joined Florida, Nebraska, Utah and Mississippi as the only states with laws that either directly or indirectly ban adoption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fight Over Gay Adoption Heats Up | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

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