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...logic shopper" (70%) whose middle-class upbringing leads to a focus on value and due diligence before a purchase. That may explain why the retail store most likely to have been shopped in by this demographic is Target (80%). Why pay more for the same roll of toilet paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Books | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

...Village has other flaws besides boring office space. Many athletes snap photos of each other standing before an oversized picture of the Temple of Heaven. The mural is right beside a public toilet, which somehow takes something away from the mystique. And as much as the Olympic Village sports a bacchanal tradition - at the Albertville Winter Olympics in '92, condom machines had to be refilled every two hours - things seem relatively staid. Boo. Since every athlete, in theory at least, could win a medal right now, it makes sense that folks are playing it cool at the moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Village People | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

...tiny, 300-sq.-ft. (28 sq m) apartment, which he shares with his wife and two sons, has tripled since 2004 to $150 a month. He's overpaying. Chunks of crumbling concrete fall from the ceiling onto his bed; a small room serves as both kitchen and toilet. But due to an influx of foreign construction laborers, Ng can't find enough work - he reckons he's spending 50% fewer days on the job this year compared with a few years ago. There's an abundance of employment opportunities in the gaming industry but Ng lacks the skills to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Split Personality | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

...miles per day for inactive mice. While the exercise wheels of the activity-prone mice would turn all night, some of the sedentary mice devised ingenious ways to avoid activity. One stuffed wood shavings around the wheel and turned it into a bed; one used it as an, ahem, toilet; and one climbed on top of her wheel only to get a better look at the overhead sensors tracking her movements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There a Laziness Gene? | 7/30/2008 | See Source »

...Cortes Ortiz as two ornately tattooed MS members - both Hispanics from the U.S. - dragged him into the bathroom and hacked him to death with machetes. Their homeboys then joined in the symbolic rite of methodically cutting the dead man's body into little pieces and flushing them down the toilet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gangs: the Mara Salvatrucha | 7/27/2008 | See Source »

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