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...great retailing successes: Mackey's Whole Foods Market is the leading natural-foods supermarket chain; Tindell's Container Store has the storage-and-organization category it invented pretty much to itself. And lately, ceos Mackey and Tindell have reconnected--partly to bask in the shared joys of being rich former slackers ("You have a Frisbee golf course on your ranch too?!?") but mainly to discuss the approach they say has enabled their success. I got to sit in on such a chat at Whole Foods' headquarters in Austin. (A transcript is at time.com/mackeytindell....
...could be cured and stored). Cereals were added at the turn of the century thanks to the Kellogg brothers. Doughnuts sneaked in after they were paired with coffee as an afternoon treat for World War I soldiers. In the South, buttery biscuits have long been served with gravy or rich, salty ham. But chicken, Kimball says, from all his readings, was never cool...
Which brings us to The Lemur. It's the story of John Glass, a formerly crusading journalist who has been reduced, by ennui and a rich marriage, to writing the biography of his father-in-law, a plutocrat with a sketchy past. Glass hires a hacker to rake up some muck. The hacker rakes up so much muck that he gets himself shot neatly through the left eye. As Black tells us (at least four times, in different ways), "Everybody has secrets, mostly guilty ones...
...national political observers had begun to wonder if he was going overboard in a perceived bid to be John McCain's running mate. McCain announced earlier this month that he favors allowing new offshore oil drilling to help ease America's gas-pump nightmare. Crist, who runs a beach-rich state that even Jeb Bush defended against offshore rigs, turned heads when he agreed with McCain. Or he at least said he was "willing to consider" the idea, as he told TIME on Wednesday, but only "if it could be proven to me that drilling off Florida's coast would...
...Obama led McCain among all age groups, most notably among young voters 18-34 where he leads 53% to McCain's 42%. McCain, though, led Obama in all income brackets save the poorest, though the two effectively split the rich, 47% for McCain to Obama's 46%. Obama won the support of those making less than $35,000 a year by a margin of 32 percentage points...