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...thing: no matter how dismal the outlook might be, trust me, this CD will make you feel better about yourself. In fact I’ll give you three reasons why your life couldn’t possibly suck as much as this CD: 1. That stack of work might seem daunting, but at least you’re being kept busy enough to avoid such poor decisions as The Fireman just made. Paul McCartney seems to have far too much time on his hands. The release of “Electric Arguments” by The Fireman marks...

Author: By Erika P. Pierson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Fireman | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

Botanical Booty Think of it as the beauty equivalent of Russian nesting dolls. The Evolu Travel Tower is a group of essential potions?cleanser, eye gel, day and night moisturizers, a postflight mask and hand cream?that are stacked together in a single vertical package. Endlessly refillable, the stack comprises six 10-ml (0.34 oz.) compartments, which lands it well below airlines' 100-ml (3 oz.) limit for carry-on cosmetics. The tower comes with a spare lid, so the pots can be transported as one or in sets, a true sign of skin-care glasnost. www.evolu.com

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Botanical Booty | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

Still, Ireland remains an attractive place to do business. It's blessed with a growing labor force of young workers, and it measures up well, too, in terms of taxes: its corporate tax rate of 12.5% is one of the E.U.'s lowest, while levies on labor and capital stack up well against rivals. That's one reason the world's second biggest advertising firm, WPP, announced in September that it plans to shift its headquarters from the U.K. to Ireland; and why pharmaceutical company Shire and publishers United Business Media both announced similar plans earlier this year. The arrival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland's Economy: Celtic Crunch Time | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...scan machines, which replaced the hanging-chad punch machines of eight years ago, broke down, forcing election officials in several counties to place hand-marked ballots in the lockboxes attached to the non-functioning machines. When the lockboxes became full, officials had to stuff ballots into duffel bags or stack them on the floor. "Not the most secure place," said Jon Greenbaum, Election Protection's top lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Despite Improvements, Still Problems at the Polls | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

...Lomakin, the clerk who relates the story straight faced, "she's not crazy." A barber, happily snipping away at my hair one evening, volunteered how she'd often seen a former resident of the building, an old woman, perched on a stuffed chair in the corner next to a stack of women's magazines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs Halloween? Estonia Has Real Ghosts | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

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