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...site. They said, "We don't need anything from you - you'll just know we're out there." I sort of shrugged and said, "Yeah, go for it." And since then it has become so enormous. I contribute critiques and lectures about aspects of writing. They send me six or eight stories each month and I go through them and I offer my feedback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist Chuck Palahniuk | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

...issuer has the lowest introductory interest rate. And yet people often do so in a way that leaves them with higher finance charges over time. In one study, University of Maryland economists Haiyan Shui and Lawrence Ausubel watched people pick a card with a teaser rate of 4.9% for six months over a card with a teaser rate of 7.9% for 12 months. That would make sense if the people then paid off their balances within six months. But many didn't - the average balance for the year was $2,500, with plenty of folks paying more in interest charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Problem with Credit Cards: The Cardholders | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

...should be done to study how the schools collapsed and how the students died," says Ai. "If anybody tries to hide it, it is a crime to the people and the nation. This time I don't think anybody can let it go." (See pictures of the quake zone six months after the disaster struck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Year After Sichuan Quake, Citizens Press for Answers | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

...other words, if the six former Soviet republics came away from the Prague summit disappointed and confused, they aren't alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The E.U. Backtracks on its Eastern European Partners | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

...born reporter of Iranian and Japanese descent had become a cause celebre back home in America because of her incarceration and sentencing. A former Miss North Dakota, she studied journalism at Northwestern University before moving to Iran six years ago. Before her press credentials were withdrawn in 2006, Saberi had been a freelance reporter for various media outlets, including the BBC World Service, NPR, and Fox News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roxana Saberi: Out of Iranian Prison, Into a Soap Opera | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

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