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Glee's creator, Ryan Murphy, specializes in lampooning American appetites. In his dark comedy Popular, he took on the desire for social status; in the plastic-surgery drama Nip/Tuck, the hunger for physical perfection. Glee is all about the timely teen dream embodied and fed by Idol, High School Musical and YouTube: fame, glorious fame...
Amid an extraordinary collection of honorees at our annual TIME 100 gala that included social entrepreneurs and activists, First Lady Michelle Obama announced that as part of the new Serve America Act, the White House is creating the Social Innovation Fund to help nonprofits and individuals who are working on creative solutions to the nation's most difficult challenges. TIME supported the creation and passage of the Serve America Act, and Mrs. Obama's speech--she is, by the way, a TIME 100 honoree--was a fitting capstone to both the evening and the movement for national service. She cited...
...French spend twice as much time enjoying meals each day as do Americans, and they get an hour more of sleep per night than do most South Koreans. The group's report used government data and Gallup polls from 18 of the OECD's member countries to examine various social indicators--from education spending and fertility rates to leisure activities and "life satisfaction...
Through its Allnighter program, Denny's is trying to give members of the late-night crowd a social experience they can't get at fast-food drive-throughs, which are now staying open later and eating into the chain's graveyard-shift revenues. Denny's has instructed its servers to chat up tipsy customers. "We want them to say, 'Looks like you guys were having some fun tonight--who wants coffee now?'" says Michael Polydoroff, director of sales promotion and licensing at Denny...
...recession recently as one caused by a "perfect storm of irresponsibility and poor decision-making that stretched from Wall Street to Washington to Main Street." Yet the Obama phenomenon could be brewing a more perfect storm, wherein an F.D.R.-L.B.J.--style government would promote intrusions that could inflict great social, political and economic devastation on us. Daniel B. Jeffs, APPLE VALLEY, CALIF...