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...other less attractive aspect of a very modest increase in hiring is that employers smell blood in the water now. They look at a line of two thousand people at a job fair that might have forty positions available in total and tell themselves that it is too good to be true. But, it isn't. Those PhDs will actually take a job for $10 an hour. It may be the only way that they can survive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Despite Rising Unemployment, Here's the Economics Of Hope | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

...play the tables. If you can tear yourself away from the spa, there's a perfectly pleasant outdoor pool (one section of which allows topless sunbathing, though I demurred); a $500-a-round golf course designed by Tom Fazio and Wynn; and La Rêve, the impressive, water-themed acrobatic show. The beauty of the Wynn is that you don't ever have to leave the grounds of the resort to enjoy yourself for a couple of days. All of Las Vegas is a screaming buy at this point, but if living well is the best revenge for recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stick It to the Recession: Wynn's Vegas Encore | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...traveling to the Middle East. Meanwhile, Obama has returned the Winston Churchill bust that sat in the Oval Office for the past eight years to the British. Indeed, some Europeans brood that the new President's only nod toward them came with the family decision to adopt a Portuguese water dog. (See pictures of presidential dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Europe Falling Out of Love with Obama? | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...Thursday, the government announced it was expelling three more groups. Most of the aid organizations worked in Darfur, providing things such as water, proper sanitation, food and medical assistance to hundreds of thousands of people in the troubled region. The groups say they have no clear idea why they had been targeted, and their aid efforts in the autonomous region of South Sudan have not been affected. "We've actually received no official reason or explanation," said Kurt Tjossem, Regional Director for the Horn and East Africa at the International Rescue Committee. "We did ask them on what grounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sudan's Leader Shuts Down Aid Groups | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...Some of the groups have been forced to shut down operations completely. An MSF hospital in the Kalma Camp in South Darfur has been closed. Boreholes operated by the International Rescue Committee have fuel to pump water for two more weeks. MSF Holland had planned a campaign to vaccinate 91,000 people against meningitis, but that been called off despite the presence of meningitis around the city of Nyala, near Kalma. "We were prepared for a mass vaccination campaign and were just waiting for the vaccine to arrive," said van Schoor. "Now I don't know what's going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sudan's Leader Shuts Down Aid Groups | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

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