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...Papandreou the man to haul Greece - and PASOK - into the 21st century? He may carry a famous political name, but Papandreou is not cut from the same cloth as most Greek politicians. Trim and fit, the U.S.-born Prime Minister (his mother, Margaret, is from Illinois) lived much of his youth in exile with his father in the U.S., Canada and Sweden. He speaks English with a quiet, Midwestern cadence and perfect American idioms. In Greek he's cerebral rather than fervent, eschewing the widespread idea that a Greek politician needs to dominate a room with oversize rhetoric. The Greek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Papandreou: The Greek Thinker | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...environment. A few days ago, after returning from Brussels with a deal that will see the European Union bail Greece out if everything else fails, he relaxed with a long bike ride. "He doesn't have the ability to inspire the public like his father, but that may be a sign of maturity in the Greek public," says Stan Draenos, a Greek-American academic who has written an upcoming biography of Andreas Papandreou. "The age of heroes is over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Papandreou: The Greek Thinker | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...write everything as a wake-up call," she says. "To myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button." Imperfect Birds is a well-informed wake-up call. Lamott is a recovering alcoholic, sober since 1986, and has just ushered her son Sam through his high school years in a bohemian enclave of Marin where drugs are there for the asking. Kids who remind her of Rosie are everywhere she turns. On this Sunday morning, she has just returned from a hike to the ocean, where she watched a search-and-rescue team look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Love | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

GENE-JACK WANG, a medical doctor with a Department of Energy lab, on a study confirming that fatty foods may be addictive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...much speed does it take to inspire such fervor? The broadband network that Google is offering may cost as much as $1 billion to build and will be able to transmit 1 gigabit per second. That's fast enough to download a feature-length DVD movie in about 70 seconds - and more than 100 times as fast as the typical connection available in the U.S., which ranks 22nd in the world in network speed, according to Akamai, an Internet-analytics firm. The Google guys are doing this to help spur the U.S. to overtake Romania and other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to Googleville? | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

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