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...cherub-cheeked 37-year-old son of a Baronet. Their interactions with each other and with Nathaniel Rothschild, scion of the eponymous banking dynasty, and Rothschild's friend and business associate Oleg Deripaska, a reclusive oligarch routinely described as Russia's wealthiest man, took place aboard Deripaska's super-yacht and in other opulent Adriatic locations over a long weekend in August. Throw in cameo appearances by Rupert Murdoch and his daughter Elisabeth, and the Corfu capers are proving the perfect distraction from Britain's credit crunch woes. A month ago Labour and the Conservatives pledged cross-party cooperation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corfugate Scandal Cheers Gloomy Britons | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...Calvin Klein. Mambo was no Ma and Pa store in its heyday, either: it had outlets on three continents and annual revenue of about $40 million. But right from its 1984 launch in a Sydney motel, Mambo in spirit was always the quirky interloper contending with surfwear's super-heavyweights, the all - Down Under trio of Billabong, Quik?silver and Rip Curl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Born-Again Mambo | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

Ecology can be fun. Nothing taught me that more than the corny 90’s cartoon “The Adventures of Captain Planet and the Planeteers”. At age five, I had dreams of becoming an environmentally responsible super-hero—definitely not the guy with the Heart ring, though. Let’s face it: They could have used one more Fire dude instead. At age 20, I still have the desire to incinerate agents of waste and entropy, but spend most of my time writing away at my laptop...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo | Title: Captain Planet Economics | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...recently companies began unleashing a barrage of unfamiliar products packed with extreme amounts of caffeine. The trend started with super-caffeinated energy drinks in the '90s, but more recently scientists and marketers have created caffeinated foods and even personal-hygiene products. In the past five years, according to the market research giant Mintel, firms have launched at least 126 caffeinated food products for sale in the U.S. Twenty-nine such products have been introduced this year alone. The offerings include things like Morning Spark oatmeal, NRG potato chips and - my favorite, if only for the brazen attempt to draw kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hey! Who Put the Caffeine in My Soap? | 10/20/2008 | See Source »

...Dubai Inc." - that are directly or indirectly owned and controlled by the government. This means, analysts say, that Dubai authorities could effectively stave off a bubble burst by keeping finished projects off-line until market conditions improved. In the event of a systemic threat, Dubai can probably rely on super-rich Abu Dhabi for a bailout. "We consider it highly likely that the authorities will step in at some level to support entities that are strategically important for the economy," Moody's analyst Tristan Cooper tells TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Wall Street's Bust Threatens Dubai's Boom | 10/19/2008 | See Source »

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