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When I reported my failure to Lauren Weber, author of In Cheap We Trust, she told me my whole plan was faulty. "Stay away from Ikea, stay away from the mall, stay away from Costco," she said. "How often do you walk in and walk out with 50 pounds of M&Ms?" She said some other useful stuff after that, but I was already out the door to go to Costco to buy a 50-pound bag of M&Ms. (See 10 things to buy during the recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein: The Week of Living Cheaply | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

Since I, unlike Weber, wasn't willing to subsist on lentils and superiority, I called my cousin Josh Burd, who will one day be rewarded with a MacArthur "genius" grant for coupon-clipping, which he will then exchange for three Fulbrights and a night at a Marriott. Years ago, by combining coupons, discounts, rebates and a CVS Extra Bucks card, he actually got paid $3 to buy a product that accentuates the curls of black women. He still owns that product, with the vague hope of befriending a black woman and inventing a time machine that goes back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein: The Week of Living Cheaply | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

This year, Harvard Law School has seen a 20 percent reduction in the number of firms participating in its recruitment process, according to Mark A. Weber, assistant dean for career services at the Law School. Some members of the class of 2009 received deferred start-dates as firms struggled to keep the hiring commitments they made two years earlier. And starting salaries for the largest firms have dropped from around...

Author: By Elias J. Groll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tough Times For Harvard Lawyers | 9/30/2009 | See Source »

According to Weber, the backlog of entry-level associates or “overhang” is negatively impacting firm demand for associates in this recruiting cycle...

Author: By Elias J. Groll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tough Times For Harvard Lawyers | 9/30/2009 | See Source »

...Jonathan Weber, a professor of communicable diseases and an HIV expert at Imperial College in London, says the consistency of the viral load across the placebo and vaccine groups was not a surprise. "It's a fair assumption that this vaccine works through antibody production," he says. "We've known for years that antibodies don't seem to affect the course of an HIV infection. Antibodies can be preventive, but they can't modify the disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIDS-Vaccine Trial Raises Hopes — and Questions | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

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