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...economy moving, and the method was to create jobs. As lawmakers haggled over the bill, Obama only rarely mentioned the ancillary policy benefits of the largest single federal spending effort in the nation's history. Last week in Denver, when he signed the bill, Obama changed his tune. What was once a jobs program suddenly became a policy triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Things to Look For in Obama's Speech | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

...economists poking the American fiscal corpse with the long sticks of their opinions, critics of the Oscar show have floated all manner of remedies. Nattering nabobs like yours truly have urged Academy members to consider nominating good films that are also popular films, on the theory that people will tune in to see prizes handed out to movies they've watched and have a rooting interest in. (See TIME's Oscar predictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Fix the Oscars: Make the Votes Public | 2/22/2009 | See Source »

...commodity to be left for only the wealthy to enjoy; That is, it is morally correct to subsidize education. However, its proponents fail to understand the absurdity—in light of modern innovations in learning—of maintaining the status quo and subsidizing the school (to the tune of $10 thousand per pupil per year) rather than subsidizing the student...

Author: By Kiran R. Pendri | Title: Futurology 1 | 2/22/2009 | See Source »

...Portnuff has documented that listening to earbuds, or in-ear headphones, for 90 minutes a day at 80% volume is probably safe for long-term hearing - a useful cutoff point to keep in mind. (But softer is better: you can safely tune in at 70% volume for about 4½ hours a day.) The risk of permanent hearing loss, Portnuff says, can increase with just five minutes of exposure a day to music at full volume. Over time, the noise can damage the delicate hair cells in the inner ear that transform sound waves to the electrical signals that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: iPod Safety: Preventing Hearing Loss in Teens | 2/21/2009 | See Source »

...perfume bottles and dropping a pitcher of milk. It seems he’s too busy scowling to put any effort into his vengeance. The violent sounds of this tempestuous break up—glass shattering, shrieks of rage, car alarms—are drowned out by the tepid tune of a rather weak pop ballad. Everything happens in slow motion; the events taking place within the dim interior of Ciara and Enrique’s fictive home seem as though they were transpiring underwater. Objects don’t fall, they float through the air and shatter delicately against...

Author: By Catherine A Morris, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Enrique Iglesias | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

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