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The power stopped at about 7:30 p.m. Friday after a rare lightning storm crossed the island. Traffic lights ceased operating; cars were jammed at intersections; cordless phones did not work; panicking residents flooded 911 with calls. Most islanders received news by way of car or battery-operated radios, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Major Power Outage in Honolulu as Obama Visits | 12/27/2008 | See Source »

Business groups oppose the open ballot provision because they claim it leaves employees dangerously open to peer pressure. They also particularly dislike a provision in the bill that requires just a simple majority of a company's employees to make it a unionized shop and another that would invoke binding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Obama Deliver for Organized Labor? | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

It was one of the recurring features of his days on the trail: supporters pressed all sorts of trinkets into Barack Obama's palms as he worked crowds and shook hands. Some voters worried about his chances, his health or his safety; others just wanted to give him something. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Lucky Charms | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

Danger-seeking was so popular that somehow pirates came back. Someone gave Don Imus a radio job. When investment banks crumbled, we decided to hand over $700 billion to Henry Paulson, who used to run an investment bank. It was the kind of year when a famous football player could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year of Living Stupidly | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

On making money: "When people think of a blogging business model, the first thing that comes to mind is that they'll run ads on their site. But in fact, the economics of this route are rather dicey - so don't quit your day job expecting that cash will fly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blogging for Dummies | 12/14/2008 | See Source »

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