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...local (and a few national) newspapers and magazines - which means they should probably be petitioning Congress for a bailout. ("Senator, if we don't get money and job security right now, it could have a disastrous impact on American blurb-writing. Adjectives like riveting, blistering and unforgettable, not to mention all our cherished W's - warm, winsome, winning, wonderful - could simply disappear. And all that prose is produced right here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Awards Fever: Film Critics vs. the Golden Globes | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

Fifty years after the fact, she earned pop-cultural icon status. There are a dozen books about her, and a half-dozen movies, including the 2006 biopic, The Notorious Bettie Page, starring Gretchen Mol. Not to mention a bunch of tribute songs, countless websites and, almost always, more than a thousand products for sale on eBay. For just $6.99 you could get a Bettie Page 'Don't Tread on Me' Metal Candle Tin & Candle, which "features an image of Bettie Page in red lingerie and licking a whip." And who'll bid $19.99 for the Bettie Page Retro Cincher Corset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bondage Babe Bettie Page Dies at 85 | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

Many factors weigh on the bond market, such as the falling price of oil - it closed at $43.52 per bbl. in Wednesday's trading - and the progress of the auto-industry bailout, not to mention every gasp from the housing market. And then there's the elephant in the room: the downward spiral of economic activity, including last week's chilling November employment report, which showed 533,000 more people out of work - "one of the worst ever," according to Morgan Stanley economist Ted Wieseman. As the various industry bailouts - banks, auto companies, credit unions and, next, states - seek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stocks Say Recession, but Bonds Say Depression | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

Network digitally. For help in landing a job, the unemployed are digging ever deeper into their address books, not to mention their favor banks. And they're not just dialing up old friends and recruiters. They're also digitizing their Rolodexes. LinkedIn, a professional-networking site whose members' average household income is $110,000, has 32 million members. A new member signs up every second; a million join every two weeks. The site, which has new job-search functions in the works, already lets employment seekers figure out what connections they have to people who work at companies that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Six-Figure-Job Hunt | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...First, he's acquiring companies like Bill Me Later, a payment system, and Danish classified-ad sites that have synergy with eBay's brand. He's also re-evaluating whether to spin off Skype, the voice-over-IP phone-system acquisition that was Whitman's biggest mistake, not to mention a $1.4 billion write-off. eBay overpaid for a company that doesn't directly benefit the core business. Donahoe also launched a new search platform to better catalog the 120 million live listings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: eBay Bids for Revitalization | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

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