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...Similar to the Equinox, the GMC Terrain is the first compact crossover vehicle from a brand that Obama's auto task force came very close to killing off. GM executives saved the nameplate by arguing that GMC-branded vehicles were highly profitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can GM's New Models Woo Back Buyers? | 7/15/2009 | See Source »

This fall the company will expand its lineup to include precision underpants. Yes, go ahead and reread that. Chung said the underpants will feature similar compression technology, which sounds kind of painful. But fear not, she assured me. They are designed to keep men comfortable and keep their precision parts cooler. "That area of a man is meant to be 1º colder than the rest of the body to optimize fertility," she said. Fertility is not my problem, I said. "It'll also give you a perkier rear end," she said. I agreed to test a sample in September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spanx for Men | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...since its clash with Georgia last year. Russia admits that the exercises--which are scheduled to end on July 6, the day President Obama arrives for his first official visit to Moscow--are "quite major" but says they're simply for practice. Tbilisi is worried they presage another attack similar to last summer's skirmish over the breakaway region of South Ossetia. Georgia has readied its armed forces in the event of another Russian invasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...from expanding. (The provision would prevent new facilities from receiving any Medicare payments and would limit changes to current facilities.) Senators Charles Grassley and Max Baucus, who lead the body's powerful Finance Committee, have been vocal critics of the doctor-owned specialty-hospital model and the industry expects similar language to be included in any upcoming Senate health-reform bill as well. Doctor-owned specialty hospitals would "wither on the vine," says Molly Sandvig, executive director of the industry lobbying group Physician Hospitals of America. "Any business that can't grow or adjust to the market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Health-Care Reform Could Hurt Doctor-Owned Hospitals | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

Arguello tried to take a similar interest when other downtrodden folk sought his help. He told me he would sometimes lie awake in bed at night worrying about their problems and trying to think of ways he could help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Politics Took Down Nicaragua's Boxing Champ | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

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