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When did you first meet the Judd Apatow crew...
...recorded Society's Child, a song she'd written about an interracial romance. It raced up the charts and caused an immediate firestorm. Ian soon became pals with some of the era's greatest musical stars, including Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. While she was fortunate not to meet their fates - both died of drug overdoses - Ian had her own tumultuous life. She attempted suicide, went broke, survived an abusive marriage, wrote and performed another megahit, At Seventeen, and became a lesbian activist. Ian, 57, recounts this and more in her new memoir, Society's Child (Tarcher/Penguin). TIME reached...
...Gates presents a false dichotomy between self-interest and caring for others. Capitalism (meaning free enterprise, free trade and competition, and freedom of choice) is not only the most efficient way of assigning scarce resources to meet human needs and wants but is also the only way to simultaneously harness these two great forces of human nature. If capitalism does not produce results fast enough or if segments of the population seem to be left out, it is because of limits imposed on freedom by governments or by lack of competition. Rather than fixing capitalism, we should spread...
Meanwhile, many obstetricians are trying to meet women halfway, through hospital-affiliated natural-birth centers. These centers are often located near regular hospitals and boast low episiotomy and C-section rates. The decision about where to give birth "is not black and white," says Lake, who is on the board of a $7 million birthing center set to open in Manhattan in 2010. "It's amazing, the technology we have. But we are losing the value of normal, natural birth." Nationwide, the number of birthing centers is growing by about 5% a year. But what might seem like an ideal...
...Live era (a line that stretches from Bill Murray to Seth Rogen) sport a louche, slackerish affability, Stiller often plays the less-than-pleasant comic foil: the tightly wound unhero who either gets on everyone's nerves (Dodgeball, The Royal Tenenbaums) or is the hapless pawn of domestic fate (Meet the Fockers, The Heartbreak Kid). As actor, writer or director, he knows something most Hollywood people don't: certain characters needn't be lap-dog lovable--if they're funny enough, the movies they're in can still be hits...