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Amazon scored a huge win from both the surge in cybershoppers and a spike in the number of shoppers cross-checking online prices before purchasing at a bricks-and-mortar store. (Read "Black Friday Sales Were Encouraging, Retailers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners and Losers from Black Friday Weekend | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

Harvard Law School Professor Cass R. Sunstein, now on leave at the White House, landed number 7 on the list for his works on crafting policy to effect changes in behavior...

Author: By Amira Abulafi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Strong Harvard Showing in Foreign Policy's Top 100 Thinkers | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...hands to his cheeks and opened his eyes really wide. As soon as I turned around he nudged me again and did the same thing, but this time he had smeared some goat’s blood around his neck. Out of all my friends, Mikey carried the largest number of vials filled with goat blood. His carrying satchel wasn’t the nicest one but it was up there.” Creepy...

Author: By Zoe A.Y. Weinberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Some 'Poon-Provided Procrastination | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

Samantha Power, Sunstein’s wife and another Harvard professor on leave in Washington, also made the list at number...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sunstein 7th Global Thinker | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

...city council office is responding to requests for interviews with a press release denying any racist intent, noting that the Natale Bianco moniker was not an official public designation. The impromptu local census "was born to know the real number of foreign-born citizens present in Coccaglio so as to better manage the economic resources destined for integration projects." Local officials say the measure follows a national policy set forth by Italy's Interior Minister, Roberto Maroni, a member of the Northern League, to give local administrators more authority in monitoring the residency status of foreigners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Italian Town's White (No Foreigners) Christmas | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

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