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...pumped shopping for shoes and new shirts, but who relishes the chance to buy relish? Sure, you can bid on frozen chicken pot pie over the eBay, but that's a pretty lonely endeavor. At the very least, these auctions offer another social outlet in tough times. "It's a fun experience," says Randy Zimmerman, a mother of seven from Holt. "We goof around with the auctioneers. People are having conversations throughout the auction - it's a real chance to meet new people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canned Ham, Going Once, Twice: A Rise in Grocery Auctions | 4/19/2009 | See Source »

...what you will about the simple, uninteresting lives of microorganisms, they're tough little critters. You try surviving for a million and a half years without heat, food or sunlight and see how you do. A team of National Science Foundation researchers just discovered a species of Antarctic organisms that has accomplished exactly that - and the microbes' unlikely survival can tell us a lot not just about the adaptability of life on Earth, but the prospects for it on Mars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Organism Survives Antarctica, and Maybe Mars | 4/18/2009 | See Source »

That being said, Domino's is far from healed. "This is going to be a tough one," says Dodie Subler, founding partner of Tait Subler, a consulting firm. "Domino's is known for its excellent training program, but these guys broke the code of ethics. It will be hard for Domino's to recover." The worst part of a viral video crisis is that the clips live forever online. Says Blackshaw: "The Web never forgets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Domino's YouTube Crisis: 5 Ways to Fight Back | 4/18/2009 | See Source »

...early 1980s he became an iconic pitchman for Miller Lite, appearing in the beer's famous "tastes great, less filling" ad campaign. Madden's barely restrained enthusiasm made him a natural salesman and he showed a knack for making anything - even foot fungus treatment - seem exciting: ("Boom! Tough-Actin' Tinactin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Madden | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

...than we thought.”Cambridge City Councillor Sam Seidel said that Cambridge has coped well with local aid cuts thus far and has avoided mass layoffs and drastic reductions in services.But with yesterday’s House budget announcement, Seidel said that Cambridge now has to make tough decisions about how to absorb the cuts. According to Seidel, this is the largest cut in local aid in the state’s history.“These cuts are real, and there’s no other source to make up this money,” Seidel said...

Author: By Liyun Jin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mass. House May Cut Local Aid | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

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