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...spare budgets, but it's better to find literary analogues. In his facility for spinning the fullest comedy out of the frailest situation, he was the movies' version of playwright Alan Ayckbourn. The stay-at-home dad morphed into Mr. Mom; the annoying guy next to you became the Steve Martin-John Candy hit Planes, Trains and Automobiles. And as a portraitist of teen angst, he was a sunnier Salinger, a comedic S.E. Hinton. Anyway, Hughes was just what Hollywood needed and rarely got: somebody whose films weren't about teenagers but inside them. Almost never before had kids looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Hughes, Chronicler of '80s Teens, Dies | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

...pictures of Steve Jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Google's Schmidt Resigned from Apple's Board | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

...Unfortunately, as Google enters more of Apple's core businesses, with Android and now Chrome OS, Eric's effectiveness as an Apple board member will be significantly diminished, since he will have to recuse himself from even larger portions of our meetings due to potential conflicts of interest," Steve Jobs said in a written statement on Aug. 3. "Therefore, we have mutually decided that now is the right time for Eric to resign his position on Apple's board." That's right: Schmidt was not fired; he quit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Google's Schmidt Resigned from Apple's Board | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

People born after 1980 tend to have a distinctive style of handwriting: a little bit sloppy, a little bit childish and almost never in cursive. The knee-jerk explanation is that computers are responsible for our increasingly illegible scrawl, but Steve Graham, a special-education and literacy professor at Vanderbilt University, says that's not the case. The simple fact is that kids haven't learned to write neatly because no one has forced them to. "Writing is just not part of the national agenda anymore," he says. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mourning the Death of Handwriting | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

...result, authorities are accustomed to treating the Hells Angels with caution. SWAT teams have monitored Hells Angels' charity motorcycle rides in case trouble breaks out, and teams of police met the bikers in Minnesota as they traveled to Sturgis this summer in a show of force. As officer Steve Ovick told a local newspaper, "You don't poke a hornets' nest with a stick, but you sure do like to know where the hornets' nest is at." (See the top 10 music-festival moments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hells Angels | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

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