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...market for actors and movies, and now the concept is trying to take root in the sports world. And while your cash isn't actually funding King James - don't expect a dividend check from his highness - the profits or losses are very real. "You've got a little skin in the game," says Michael Sroka, a 27-year-old ex-former hedge fund manager who is OneSeason's founder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing the Jock Market | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

...song still sets the stage well for the album, as Trapper tries to remain catchy while exploring serious issues.In the third song, from which the album takes its name, singer-songwriter Eric Earley paints an intriguing picture of what it would be like to have his skin turn to fur and then to join a pack of wolves, only to return to society after years in the wilderness.As with many of their songs, “Furr” seems to have deeper implications than the lyrics superficially imply. Earley seems to be using the tale of the wolves...

Author: By Edward F. Coleman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Blitzen Trapper | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

This laptop, which has been out on the streets for a few weeks, is specifically designed for the road warrior who needs a rough-and-tumble machine. The brushed-aluminum skin is scratch-proof, and this semiruggedized model meets the military's standards for durability, having been drop tested from 30 in. off the ground at every conceivable angle. That means if you fumble the 2530p and drop it at airport security (as I've done before, dimpling the corners of two MacBooks), an accelerometer senses the plunge and locks the hard drive into place, protecting your data...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Klutz's Companion | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...politicians in a Florida town decided to give the job to law enforcement. City authorities in Riviera Beach, Fla., passed an ordinance earlier this year declaring it "unlawful for any person to appear in public or in view of the public wearing pants below the waist which expose the skin or undergarments." The offending style, of course, was the hip-hop-influenced saggy-pants fashion, popular primarily among young black men who let their pants drop and expose a few inches of their boxer shorts. But the city fathers of Riviera Beach could have a hard time convincing the local...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Saggy-Pants Furor in Riviera Beach | 10/1/2008 | See Source »

...Though he used money from the NIH New Innovator Award that he won last year, Hochedlinger’s research was not subject to federal embryonic stem cell restrictions because iPS cells are created from skin cells or blood cells instead of from embryos. His work was also funded in part by the Harvard Stem Cell Institute...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Scientists Create Safer Stem Cells | 9/30/2008 | See Source »

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