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...says action films can't address today's most pressing international issues? Fast & Furious, the fourth episode in Universal's car-chase franchise, tells the story of professional drivers toting heroin across the border into California and corralling the villainous Mr. Big. The movie solves the auto-buying drought and the Mexican drug wars in one huge testosterone fantasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Box Office: Fast & Furious by a Mile | 4/5/2009 | See Source »

...upcoming issue of the Journal of Consumer Research, consumers who touch products in the aisles will pay more money for them than those who keep their hands off the merchandise. So in the 21 years Procter & Gamble ran the iconic television advertisements for its Charmin toilet-paper brand, Mr. Whipple, the uptight grocer with a secret squeezing fetish, should have encouraged his bubbly shoppers to fondle away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Want to Save Some Money? Shop Without Touching | 4/3/2009 | See Source »

...know and don't really love is finished. So is GM CEO Rick Wagoner, who was told to hit the road, his three decades of service to GM - and strong support within the industry - now considered a liability. "This is not meant as a condemnation of Mr. Wagoner, who has devoted his life to this company," Obama said in condemning him. "Rather, it's a recognition that it will take a new vision and new direction to create the GM of the future." In Wagoner's place, the President promoted COO Fritz Henderson, who has worked at the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Detroit Be Retooled — Before It's Too Late? | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...guitar and echoed bass drum, sounds like an early U2 track, and the vocal and lyrical style and African-inflected bass of “Living Thing” directly channels Vampire Weekend’s watered-down “Graceland” vibe. As already established by Mr. West, “Nothing to Worry About” is an elation, a nearly perfectly-constructed hip-hop influenced indie-pop dance song with a nonsensical yet addicting chorus. “Lay it Down” marks the other high point of the record. With its jaunty tone...

Author: By Spencer Burke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Peter Bjorn & John | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...tough and talented executive but indubitably an insider. I suspect he may have damaged his long-term chances by pinning his colors so firmly to Mr. Wagoner's mast during the drawing up of the GM restructuring plan...I would give him a 50-50 chance, which is not bad given the odds on GM as a whole." -John Gapper, writing on his Financial Times blog about Henderson's promotion, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fritz Henderson: GM's Interim CEO | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

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