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...elegant. I want to make the slider sexy - because anything, once you shrink down the size, becomes adorable. I want a classy burger joint. I'll have a slider for you. We'll call it the O burger. You can fill in what you want the O burger to stand for! [Laughs.] (See pictures of Rachael Ray's career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rachael Ray in Praise of Burgers and Our Culinary Tastes | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

...deadline. That's because some parts of the planet are much bigger than others, at least in circumference. The Earth's equator is 24,901 miles around. The perimeter of the Arctic Circle, by contrast, is just 9,945 miles, and if you stand five feet from the North Pole, the circumference you inscribe as the Earth rotates is a scant 31.4 feet. Yet in all of those places, it still takes 24 hours to complete a single rotation. (The fact that points along the equator move faster than others is the reason NASA and the European Space Agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Chile's Earthquake Shortened Earth's Day | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

...Stuff Eatery, the defending champion, clad in a boxer's robe and wearing a giant title belt. "We do classic burgers at Bill's," said Brett Reichler, chef of the upstart Bill's Bar and Burger, a first-time entrant who followed Mendelsohn's lead in having hot models stand around getting out the vote. "What can I say?" said Randy Garutti, czar of Danny Meyer's phenomenally successful Shake Shack. "The Shack burger is a classic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Anyone Improve Upon the Classic Burger? | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

After the 1980s, charity tunes hit mostly false notes (Anyone remember 2008's "Just Stand Up"?) except for Elton John's 1997 reworking of "Candle in the Wind," which benefited Princess Diana's foundation following her death. The song's outsize success--it is the best-selling single ever--spawned a wave of imitators too lazy to even think up new lyrics. "Do They Know It's Christmas?" was rerecorded and released in 2004 to benefit Darfur. And the new "We Are the World," featuring an Auto-Tuned Lil Wayne in place of Bob Dylan, may be raising money atop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brief History: Benefit Songs | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...Libyan officials say the visa ban could last some time, in part because many applaud Gaddafi for his stand against Switzerland. "How could the Swiss put 188 names on this list [of Libyans banned from the country] including the Leader of the Revolution?" asks Abdul Majeed el-Dursi, director of the government's press office for foreign journalists. "This is something which is done to criminals. I think it will continue until they [Switzerland] comes to their senses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaddafi vs. Switzerland: The Leader's Son on What's Behind the Feud | 2/27/2010 | See Source »

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