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...From Personality to PersonaBig as reality TV is, it's also just a facet of a larger shift in popular culture: changing attitudes toward privacy and self-expression. If you grew up with reality TV and the Internet, your default setting is publicity, not privacy. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, recently argued that sharing has become the "social norm...
...Octomom, parlayed a horrifyingly dangerous multiple birth into a reality special, ending up - like her apparent model, Angelina Jolie - on the cover of Star magazine, showing off "My New Bikini Body! How I Did It!" Richard Heene convinced the world that his 6-year-old son was hurtling toward his death in a balloon. But as the veteran of ABC's Wife Swap knew, the show he was pitching - eccentric storm-chasing scientist and his wacky family - wouldn't even raise an eyebrow on a cable schedule...
...long time that there are too many bad schools in the U.S., dropout factories that shove barely literate children through the system. Because of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) - the George W. Bush - era education law that forces every school to report whether it makes "adequate yearly progress" toward nationwide math- and reading-proficiency standards - we can now point to exactly which schools are the lowest performing and the least improving. With that information in hand, the question becomes, Well, what do we do about it? (See TIME's special report on paying for college...
...company has introduced since the iconic burger was launched in the 1960s. The Big Mac remains on the menu - the company isn't stupid - but executives were so fearful of spinning off a variant that internal negotiations and testing took a year. "Don't touch" was the attitude toward the Big Mac when he arrived, says Coudreaut. The fact that the top brass allowed him to remix it is both an expression of the company's faith in him and a signal that McDonald's once again feels strong enough to take risks. (See pictures of what makes...
Even for those who hate the idea of racial preferences, such stipulations can be a useful barometer for finding a person with shared values. Says Bostonian Karen Schoneman: "I tend to have a negative reaction toward a man who indicates race preferences, whether it excludes me as a white woman or not." When she sees evidence online of what she regards as narrow-mindedness, she skips right to the next profile. One click closer, maybe, to postracial eHarmony...