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What's gutsy is that writer-director Jason Reitman (adapting Walter Kirn's novel) is springing a movie about a toxic social problem at a time when more than a tenth of the workforce is out of a job. Moreover, Reitman hired a few dozen unemployed nonactors to play the parts of staffers who get the hook. These folks aren't performing; they're bleeding on camera. (See pictures "Glitz and Glamour at the Venice Film Festival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clooneypalooza: A Star Is Airborne | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...Kistner was working as a consultant in the aviation industry and his wife Effie was expecting their first child. (They ended up having twin boys.) The baby books he devoured contained a fact that caught his attention: pregnant women and infants should avoid dry cleaning because of the toxic chemicals used in the process. When he had trouble finding a greener cleaner in New York City, Kistner had an epiphany - he'd start his own. The result is Green Apple Cleaners, which uses a variety of environmentally friendly methods to dry-clean suits, shirts and dresses. "I knew there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guilt-Free Laundry | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...being a writer was a doctor and a spy, all with generous measures of success. His private life, however, was often tortured: the death of his mother when he was 8 (something he never got over), a cold upbringing in Kent by an unaffectionate uncle, a crippling stammer, a toxic marriage made against better judgment at the age of 43 and the lengths he went to to preserve a façade of conventionality to hide his homosexuality. All these created an extraordinarily complex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Drama Queen: William Somerset Maugham | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

Hoekstra added that they also want to learn which of the changes actually cause the protein to become toxic...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Similar Venom Found in Two Species | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...sees the court's rulings as an inconvenience, something to be ignored and an obstacle to be circumvented." - Federal Judge Stephen Robinson, revoking Kerik's bail and describing him as a "toxic combination of self-minded focus and arrogance." (New York Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bernard Kerik | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

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