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...pan to a contemporary, post-Industrial society - say, the U.S. An economy based on brains and connections? That sounds about right. It's been half a century since economists first lasered in on the importance of "human capital" - the notion that what is locked up in people's heads and how they relate to other people deserves just as much attention as a company's physical assets (its factories, trucks and land). With each new phase of our information society, it becomes truer that the way to get a leg up isn't to own a factory (they...
...outlived Edith Piaf and Judy Garland by three years, and Elvis by eight. (Forget Madonna - that woman is too smart to self-immolate.) Jackson's bizarre resculpting of his features, his litigious shenanigans with his youngest admirers, his obsession with being an eternal preadolescent, a petrified Peter Pan: all these eccentricities gave him an otherworldly cast. It took death to restore his standing as one-of-a-kind entertainer - to bring him back to life. (See TIME's full Michael Jackson coverage...
Read "Michael Jackson: The Death of Peter Pan...
...moment of revulsion for some of the family members of those who died in the 1988 bombing of Pan-Am Flight 103: the only person convicted in the attack, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, being set free and receiving a hero's welcome on the tarmac in his native Libya. Now, two months after al-Megrahi's controversial release, Scottish police are diving back into the two-decade-old investigation in hopes of identifying the former Libyan intelligence officer's suspected accomplices - and providing some peace of mind to relatives of the 270 people killed in the attack...
...Pegeen’s hand down his pants. ‘The smell,’ she said, ‘it’s on us,’ while Axler though, I miscalculated—I didn’t think it through. He was the god Pan no longer. Far from...