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...season that crowns the overall Sprint Cup champion. Johnson, 34, became the first racer in NASCAR history to win four straight titles in its top circuit, a feat that fuels the inevitable question: is this guy the greatest racer of all-time? Johnson took a victory lap in New York City, and sat down with TIME to talk about his training regimen, his off-track driving habits, and the perception that he's way too boring. (Finding Hell on Earth: See photos from the making of The Road...
...part of the Hendrick racing team, whose drivers finished in the top three spots in the NASCAR standings this year. Hendrick has more resources than any other team, and has been called the New York Yankees of racing. Do you feel you get the same kind of resentment that many fans feel towards the "big guys" like the Yankees who are able to outspend the competition? Not necessarily. Our fan base really respects what we've done as an organization. They respect Rick Hendrick. If [resentment] is a problem, we love it. It means we're doing our jobs...
...election will confirm that Honduras has slipped back into the political chicanery and military meddling that typified the 1970s and '80s. "You can't use an election to clean the slate after a coup," says Christopher Sabatini, senior policy director at the Council of the Americas in New York City. "It just threatens to roll back democratic norms in Central America by decades." (See pictures of violence in Honduras...
...others. But BBH three years ago strayed from the path when it set up a subsidiary called Zag to create and market novel goods like the Ila Dusk. BBH calls Zag its brand-invention business - and it isn't the only ad shop selling its own branded products. New York City agency Anomaly produces Eos, a line of women's cosmetics; Miami-based Crispin Porter + Bogusky is the brains behind Twist cleaning products. And Brooklyn Brothers, with offices in New York City and London, produces a line of organic milk chocolate called Fat Pig. (See the 50 best inventions...
...many a hardship in the film version of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel, took in a sturdy $1.5 million at 111 theaters, to finish a mere $10,000 behind Clooney's 10th-place The Men Who Stare at Goats. In a special engagement at single theaters in New York City and Los Angeles, Disney's old-style animated feature The Princess and the Frog pulled in $712,000. If it keeps that up, it will truly be Disney magic...