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America in the Brangelina ERA does not lack celebrity advocates: Scarlett Johansson for Barack Obama, George Clooney for Darfur, Matt Damon for clean water. Whether the famous are effective advocates for good is debatable, but Madison Avenue long ago proved they are great advocates for buying stuff. Ironically, considering the tonnage of celeb-inspired purchases choking our landfills, this also makes them ideal pitchmen for the environment. After all, green issues are about consumption: what to eat, how to build your house, what junk to fill it with and how to dispose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planet Hollywood Goes Green | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

...what you had for lunch last Thursday. One of life's great mysteries is why certain experiences get lodged immovably in our memory, while others are forgotten. Fortunately, recent advances in neuroscience have helped spur major breakthroughs in scientists' understanding of the nature of memory. To explain, TIME asked Matt Wilson, a professor of neurobiology at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Do We Remember Bad Things? | 6/23/2008 | See Source »

...latest clan member to run the firm is August A. Busch IV, who said earlier this year that the company will never be sold on his watch. Missouri governor Matt Blunt has denounced the takeover bid and Senator Claire McCaskill declared, after a visit from InBev boss Carlos Brito, that she would do everything in her power to block the deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Busch's Last Call in St. Louis? | 6/20/2008 | See Source »

...news for Facebook: It lost its functional second in command today. Matt Cohler, 31, who oversees the Facebook "product" and is generally perceived to be the core of the original management team, is joining Benchmark Capital, a powerful Bay Area venture capital firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facebook Loses a Top Executive | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

...living in France affected the way you think about your childhood in America? Matt Brosseau BENNINGTON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for David Sedaris | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

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