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Christopher Greenslate and Kerri Leonard, high school teachers outside San Diego, were griping about the rising cost of groceries when they decided to see what life is like for the billion people on earth who spend $1 a day on food. The couple's blog took off, and their book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cash Crunch: Why Extreme Thriftiness Stunts Are the Rage | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

After their month was up, they cut loose with some chocolate doughnuts. "The feeling was probably similar to what addicts feel once they finally get a fix," writes Greenslate in their book. "Pure ecstasy, with a recognition for how good it feels to be bad once again."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cash Crunch: Why Extreme Thriftiness Stunts Are the Rage | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

A nationwide "Day of Anger" that agitators had hyped for weeks proved to be marked less by ire than by indifference. Organizers, miffed at the sputtering economy and rising prices, had hoped tens of thousands would show on March 20 to call for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to resign. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

On March 24, four days after the Vatican released a papal letter concerning the problem of sexual abuse in the Irish Church, Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of Bishop John Magee. The 73-year-old clergyman, who became head of the diocese of Cloyne in 1987 and previously served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

I still bear the mental scars of a question on a philosophy exam in college that left me whimpering at its wicked simplicity: "Could the number two change its properties?" I'd been raised to think numbers were as close to reliable as anything could be, so clean and clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. Census: Why Our Numbers Matter | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

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