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Sure. Some companies are going to be screaming "buy" these days. In the 1930s there were people who made fortunes. If you're willing and able to do the homework I'm sure you'll find some great opportunities. But the only area of the world economy I know of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investment Guru Jim Rogers | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

To many retail analysts, the Toys "R" Us tweak makes a ton of sense. After all, if Wal-Mart and the Targets of the world can sell toys, why shouldn't Toys "R" Us sell food and paper towels? "Sometimes the fence swings both ways," says Marshall Cohen, an analyst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Toys "R" Us Sell Toilet Paper? | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

But many of the killer bylines only popped up occasionally. "They were willing to throw tons of money at writers, but they couldn't figure out how to use them," says a former staffer. "They all got about two stories in the magazine. They killed one of David Margolick's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portfolio's Flameout, or How to Burn Money Fast | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

Alcohol often gets blamed for sexual assignations that, in the bright light of the next morning, seem unwise. It's called beer-goggling, but does it really exist? Does drinking actually affect how your brain evaluates the attractiveness of other faces, or do we just use alcohol as an excuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Beer (Goggling) Affect Whom We Find Attractive? | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

And her topic could not be more timely. Wrong was already writing when, in January 2008, Kenya descended into its worst bout of intertribal violence since independence - a jarring episode that left at least 1,000 dead and that Wrong attributes to the kind of tribally based corruption that Githongo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eating in Africa | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

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