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...into it? They don't usually. It's not enough to say you have to be good; everybody does that for about a week and then runs back to their old habits. Eventually necessity forces a change. That will happen when oil is so expensive that you can no longer afford to use it to make plastic bags out of it. And instead of that, we will use it for things we really need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Margaret Atwood | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...eBay for a third or tenth of the price. So there was a clear artificial bubble in terms of sales that got dissipated over the subsequent years. I don't see that same phenomenon in this crisis particularly. The servers that were at Bank A, which is no longer a stand-alone bank, are still running all the transactions, it's just that they now belong to Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Intel Chief: Why Tech Will Survive Crunch | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...greatest show TV has seen in years; it brought big ratings and restored, for a while, big political news bureaus' sense of importance. And now it was going to come to an end. How could the networks possibly say goodbye? How could they make the moment last a little longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Night: Whiteboards Out, Holograms In | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...Iowa: No Longer a Toss-Up? 8:00 a.m. E.T. Iowa appears to have lost its toss-up state status, according to a Sunday Des Moines Register poll showing Barack Obama has widened his lead to 17 points here, getting 54% of the vote compared to John McCain's 37%, up from his 12-point lead in September. The Register's Iowa Poll also shows Obama leading by 23 points among all-important independent voters, who make up 32% of Iowa's 2.1 million registered voters (Democrats are 32%; Republicans, 28%.) Other recent polls put Obama ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Day Dispatches: It's Morning for the Kenyan Obamas | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

...taught me about hard work," he said. "She's the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so that I could have a better life. She poured everything she had into me. And although she can no longer travel, I know that she's watching tonight, and that tonight is her night as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Inspiration, His Grandmother, Dies at 86 | 11/3/2008 | See Source »

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