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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...page underscores your piggishness. I decided to do the same thing with money, even though I've been tweaking my spending ad hoc for months. Helpful hint No. 1: When you try to save money by going to the supermarket instead of eating out, you probably shouldn't shop at a store called Gourmet Garage. (See the best business deals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Much Less Can You Spend? | 3/29/2009 | See Source »

...Like some supersequel - Freddy vs Jason or Alien vs Predator - that never bothered with any setup episodes, Monsters vs Aliens bursts onto the screen this weekend. Onto it and out of it, for this latest concoction from the tummlers at Jeffrey Katzenberg's DreamWorks shop is being tub-thumped as the first feature-length animated movie to be conceived as a 3-D spectacle (not just converted to the format). As such, it's zazzy and colorful, its creatures no less graphically plausible for seeming like they're ready to leap into your lap. (See pictures of animated movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monsters vs Aliens: A 3-D Doozy | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

...family in middling Yankee splendor - a big house, good schools for John and his older brother Fred. But by the mid-1920s, as Cheever reached his teens, the shoe business was tanking, and his father was increasingly drunk and adrift. To make ends meet, his mother opened a gift shop that Cheever would describe as "an abysmal humiliation," at least for him. The big house would be lost anyway; his mother would shed her feckless husband and eventually drink herself to death - a motif in the family story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Darkness Visible | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

...change is more than welcome. Prices now stay constant for days - a novel concept in a country where shop owners had until recently recalculated prices twice a day. "This allowance, though not enough, sees me through the month," says Majuru. "I can plan what my salary can and cannot buy since prices have stabilized. I could not do that when our dollar was the official currency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Zimbabwe's Runaway Inflation Been Tamed? | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

...closed from that time until opening for a day in 2003 and then until this opening. [It's] only been open fewer than a half dozen times and never open to the general public. The museum itself, in the last several decades has been called Saddam's gift shop by the average Iraqi. (See pictures of treasure hunting in Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stolen-Treasure Hunter Matthew Bogdanos | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

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