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Unemployment could be nearly 10% by mid-year, and it could stay at that level for several quarters. That is clearly not part of Mr. Bernanke's forecast. It is not in the model because it has not happened since the recession of the 1980s and employment improved fairly quickly after hitting a peak at just over 10%. That recession twenty five years ago was not as bad as this one, at least according to experts. Amateur economists might believe that a worse recession would probably cause worse unemployment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting Bernanke on the Shelf for a Year | 5/6/2009 | See Source »

...white any day, but more seriously...How about some sex? The first article, "Finagled," (wait, huh?) is about a women who has sex...with another woman! Nipples are compared to miniature suns with stretch marks radiating out. (At this point FlyBy realizes this magazine's reading level far surpasses that of Penthouse Letters...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer | Title: H-BOMB ≠ Porn | 5/6/2009 | See Source »

...Isabella Götz, a Munich judge and expert in family law, is critical of the verdict. "I believe that triple names should be allowed on the parent level," she tells TIME. "Names are something very emotional ... a part of one's personality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: German Court Upholds Ban on Extra-Long Names | 5/6/2009 | See Source »

...that many of us are lazy or forgetful and use the same password on multiple sites. In early 2008, Facebook noticed a marked increase in the number of scams. "We're the most effective distribution platform on the Internet," says Ryan McGeehan, the company's incidence-response manager. "The level of person-to-person connection doesn't exist anywhere else. And as we get bigger, we become a bigger target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Downside of Friends: Facebook's Hacking Problem | 5/5/2009 | See Source »

...political activity. Unfortunately, these are of very little importance to Turkey. This country, whose strategic value has been vastly overestimated, continues to bully, demanding that the E.U. adapts to its unacceptably low standards, instead of making some serious efforts both in domestic and foreign policy to rise to the level of a modern, Western democratic country. Georgios Kapellakos, KHALKIS, GREECE

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics and Extinction | 5/4/2009 | See Source »

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