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...this speculation seems somewhat foolish once you've seen the Swedish film adaptation of Dragon Tattoo, subtitled in English and arriving in America this week after storming the European box office. The Lisbeth you know from the books (and an awful lot of you do know her - the paperback of Dragon Tattoo just finished its 36th week on the New York Times bestseller list) as a flat-chested Swedish girl with spiky hair, punk clothing, black lipstick and a bracingly bad attitude toward rules, has already been found. Her name is Noomi Rapace and she owns the part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo: Swedish Suspense | 3/19/2010 | See Source »

...really just threw strikes,” Albright said. “I think he had a lot of us off-balance by throwing first-pitch curveballs or first-pitch fastballs and just kept us guessing the entire game…That guy was just on that...

Author: By E. Benjamin Samuels, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Baseball Drops All Four Contests To Start Break | 3/19/2010 | See Source »

...Dave McCullough, a spokesman for the European Consumers' Organization (BEUC), says that on average, Europeans have about a half hour each week to do all their food shopping. "The fact is that a lot of people do not have time to make decisions on what they are buying," he says. "A housewife out with her three kids wants to make a quick decision while rushing through the supermarket aisles and does not have time for detailed comparison. When we clearly have an obesity epidemic spreading across Europe and when consumers clearly want to make healthier choices about their diet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Europe Green-Light New Food Labels? | 3/18/2010 | See Source »

...CIAA, the European food-and-drink-industry body, also believes the voluntary back-of-package guideline-daily-amount (GDA) labels are good enough. "While there is no silver bullet to tackling obesity, we are already doing a lot," says Mella Frewen, the head of the group. "Issues such as obesity require a complex mix of solutions. We need a more coherent approach covering a multitude of factors, like education, physical activity, portion size and frequency of consumption." Frewen contends the traffic-light proposal is too subjective. "It makes a blanket judgment about foodstuffs and suggests that there are 'good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Europe Green-Light New Food Labels? | 3/18/2010 | See Source »

...focus on anything in the mornings, let alone sartorial choices, can be an ordeal. So Bali it was. It was only after we walked outside into the tropical heat of Thailand's capital, Bangkok, that we realized just how monumental a mistake we had made. Thais in the parking lot stared. The whispering began. Could it be that a blond American toddler had knowingly dressed himself in a red shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parsing the Color Codes of Thailand | 3/18/2010 | See Source »

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