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...reasons why people love shopping online, instant gratification isn't one of them. Buyers typically wait days for their packages to arrive, and that lag time gets even longer if you're not home the moment the delivery person rings the doorbell. That may be part of the reason why online shopping, which currently accounts for just 5% of all retail sales in the U.S., is already beginning to stall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Better Way To Get Your Packages? | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

...After Dark, 2004 In this novella, Murakami's most recent book, the author drops the cool, first-person narrator of his previous work for a wide-angle look at a single night in Tokyo's neon-lit Shinjuku district

Author: /time Magazine | Title: By the Book | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

...exquisite corpse was a parlor game played by the Surrealists, those convention-spurning artists, writers and pranksters who flourished in 1920s Paris. Its objective: to uncover the magic of accident. One person would write the opening of a sentence, fold the paper to conceal part of it, pass it to a companion for continuation, and so on around the table. The first attempt contained the nonsense phrase "exquisite corpse," and the name stuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surrealist Pen Pals | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

...active Internet users will have some sort of presence in a virtual world, with Second Life currently one of the most populous. Business Week last fall put on the cover a real estate agent whose virtual land deals made her the first person to earn $1 million through the site, and TIME included Second Life creator Philip Rosedale in this year's list of the world's 100 most influential people. Even NBA commissioner David Stern now has a Second Life avatar, although he told TIME, "I don't think it captures the essence of my personality or good looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Second Life's Real-World Problems | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

...bike to the swimming hole and swung from a rope to drop into the lake. In short: I led the ideal boy's life. My dad's mentoring and fun-loving spirit filled my childhood with beautiful memories I will treasure for life. He made me a better person and a better mother to my own two daughters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox: Aug. 20, 2007 | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

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