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...know. It's bizarre. People are fascinated by housing they want to read the home section of the newspaper and gossip about it. But they don't seem to want to trade it. I think it's all a matter of getting it right. And we continue to work on it. It's like insurance. They invented life insurance in the 1600s, but it didn't become common until the 20th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yale's Robert Shiller on the Outlook for Home Prices | 5/6/2009 | See Source »

...publishers searching for a solution to the ailing print business. It's common to see a Times product on a new communications device, from the first iPhone to the first Kindle. Later this month, the paper is supposedly coming out with a new Times Reader - the section fronts and archived crossword puzzles free, the rest by subscription - available as an Adobe Air application. It would hardly be surprising then to learn that the newspaper has been quietly working with Amazon to create an even more compelling Kindle-based product that takes advantage of a larger display screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Amazon's Kindle Rescue Newspapers? | 5/5/2009 | See Source »

...comes in the intense nature of the themes which he is exploring. Phillips is asking for consideration of subject matters both abstract and frightening, but he makes the journey worthwhile.Phillips has a tendency to refer to classical images and figures, which would be maddening if not for the notes section in the back. This handy reference provides a context for these numerous mentions of otherwise inscrutable symbols. For example, Topaz—a minor figure in ancient myth who was slain by Apollo—is the title and subject of a poem.The majority of Phillips’ images tend...

Author: By Kerry A. Goodenow, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Acclaimed Poet Phillips Meditates on Life | 5/5/2009 | See Source »

...location in regard to a lot of these crimes, the crimes we have proved against him already and the modus operandi on those crimes, [which] match the MOs on these crimes," says Detective Richard Bengtson of the Los Angeles Police Department's Robbery Homicide Division, Cold Case Homicide Section, which cracked the case. "If we are able to prove even half of these cases, it would make him [one of] L.A.'s most prolific serial killers, if not the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cold Case Gets Hot: Is This L.A.'s Westside Rapist? | 5/3/2009 | See Source »

...same time, one section of the railway will bisect the circular line through the city, providing more direct routes to both Paris airports at either end. That ramped up transport system will also prove vital to meeting another major Paris challenge: keeping its title as the world's leading tourist destination by luring visitors to stay in and around the capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarkozy's Big Plans for a Greater Paris | 5/3/2009 | See Source »

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