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Top 10 Sources of Salt in Your Diet

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:18:00 -0800

Time - Feb. 08 - Bread and rolls are the No. 1 source of sodium in the American diet, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Salty snacks like chips and pretzels come in at No. 10. The finding seems unlikely, since bread isn’t actu

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Warren Buffett Ready to Take Republicans' Tax Challenge

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Time - By Rana Foroohar - Jan. 11 (News) - Buffett has pledged to match 1 for 1 all such voluntary contributions made by Republican members of Congress. “And I’ll even go 3 for 1 for McConnell,” he says. That could be quite a bill if McConnell takes the challenge; after all, the Senator is worth at least $10 million. As Buffett put it to me, “I’m not worried.”

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Mind Your Manners: The Secrets of Switzerland's Last Traditional Finishing School

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By William Lee Adams - Oct. 24 (Special Report) - If lunch at the Institut Villa Pierrefeu (IVP) often feels like a rehearsal, that's because it is. Under the watchful eye of Rosemary McCallum, a Cordon Bleu-trained chef and expert on table manners, 13 female students practice the skills they've studied in courses on European etiquette and table service. As the meal unfolds in a stately dining room with corniced ceilings, McCallum gently reminds the five student servers that they must pick up champagne glasses near the bottom of the stems and offer the pear-and-Roquefort tarts from the left. Back home, four of the five women serving have live-in staffs. But the program requires them to rotate through the service role anyway so they can better train and manage their employees. Vera, a 30-year-old playing the role of hostess, steers the conversation from her work with orphans back home in Lebanon to a Mexican guest's love of horseback riding. All goes well until Vera's fondness for Toblerone mousse leads her to commit a crucial error. "Your husband is still eating, and you've already finished," McCallum says. "Remember to pace yourself." Vera glares across the table at her husband, played by a female classmate from India. "Well," Vera says, "my husband should learn to eat faster."

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Talk About a Buzz: Marijuana-Infused Wine Gains Popularity in California

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:09:36 -0700

Time - Oct. 07 - Marijuana still hasn't been legalized in most parts of the U.S, but obviously that hasn't stopped people from experimenting with it.

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Germans and the Euro: Can't Live With It, Can't Live Without It

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Time - Sep. 28 (News Report) - If it's the big picture you're after, Frankfurt is the only destination in Germany. Most German cities are low-rise, fashioned from timber, stone and brick, though concrete and steel have been widely deployed to plug gaps left by Allied bombing raids. But the city on the Main didn't just repair and restore. It reached for the sky, and in the process helped to power the Wirtschaftswunder, Germany's postwar economic miracle. "Bankfurt" or "Mainhattan," nicknames coined as shining towers rose up to accommodate the core of Germany's financial services industry, is home to the world's fifth largest stock exchange, the national or European headquarters of 218 banks, a thicket of hedge funds and major insurance companies and the Deutsche Bundesbank, Germany's central bank. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2095157,00.html#ixzz1ZHFSl5hM

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This Is an Emergency Fund Emergency: 64% of Americans Don’t Have $1,000 in Savings

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Brad Tuttle - Aug. 11 (News) - If you suddenly needed $1,000 to cover an unexpected expense, how would you come up with the money? In a new survey, only 36% of Americans said they’d simply turn to their trusty savings accounts. The rest would be forced to hit up friends, family, or loan operations for the money, get a cash advance on a credit card, disregard payments on monthly expenses, or pawn some of their stuff.

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After Downgrade, Chinese Press Blasts U.S. Borrowing

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 03:59:00 -0700

Time - Aug. 09 - An investor watches the electronic board at a stock exchange hall on July 12, 2011 in Huaibei, China. (Photo: ChinaFotoPress / Getty Images) Official Chinese media have lashed out at American debt following rating agency Standard & Poor's decision to dow

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No Grand Bargain: Boehner Walks Away From Big Deficit Deal

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Jay Newton Small - Jul. 10 (News Report) - After days of hype in Washington, House Speaker John Boehner threw cold water on the prospect of a grand bargain on deficit reduction Saturday night, effectively scaling back negotiations on a deal tied to the effort to raise the debt ceiling before an Aug. 2 deadline. “Despite good-faith efforts to find common ground, the White House will not pursue a bigger debt reduction agreement without tax hikes,” Boehner said in a statement. “I believe the best approach may be to focus on producing a smaller measure, based on the cuts identified in the Biden-led negotiations, that still meets our call for spending reforms and cuts greater than the amount of any debt limit increase.” The decision to seek a smaller, $2 trillion deal (door No. 2, as it turns out) came after an afternoon call between Boehner and Obama. Boehner suggested dealing with most revenue issues in a sweeping tax reform bill later in the year, a GOP leadership source said, but Democrats demanded that significant revenue increases be part of the debt ceiling deal — something Boehner felt couldn’t pass the House. Talks also broke down, the GOP source said, over cuts to entitlements — a measure House Democratic leaders have long said their members can’t swallow.

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The Road (Maybe) Ahead

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Mark Halperin - Jul. 09 (Opinion) - This isn’t a prediction, but here is one highly plausible sequence of a series of events that could play out on the debt crisis.

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It's the Ads, Stupid: Why TV Leads to Obesity

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Alice Park - Jun. 28 (News) - How much TV do your kids watch? If you don't know, you might want to find out, say experts, since the time children spend in front of a TV or computer screen can have a profound effect on their physical and developmental health.

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Afghan Sitrep: A Grunt from the Front Sounds Off - Battleland

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Chuck Spinney - Jun. 09 (News Report) - Attached below is a more informed, less self-interested view. It is from an email written by an active duty colonel who travels all over Afghanistan. For obvious reasons, he must remain anonymous, but it came to me from a trusted source. This colonel, unlike many of his peers, actually goes on foot patrols with troops to see things for himself. His message, which is only a few days old, is bad Ju Ju, I am afraid. Read more: http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/06/08/afghan-sitrep-a-grunt-from-the-front-sounds-off/#ixzz1Om5KBFQ4

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Do Girl Scout Cookies Harm the Environment?

Thu, 05 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Tara Kelly - May. 05 (Special Report) - Girl Scout cookie lovers, beware. Because of palm oil, a key ingredient, those delicious and addictive treats may not be as innocent as they seem. Not only is the ingredient linked to child labor in Indonesia, but it also allegedly contributes to rainforest deforestation.

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Fidel Castro Steps Down from Cuba's Communist Party Central Committee

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:47:47 -0700

Time - Apr. 19 - News that Fidel Castro has resigned from the Central Committee of Cuba's Communist Party isn't very surprising — slowed by chronic health problems, the 84-year-old has effectively been out of political life since passing over the reins to his brother Raul in 2006.

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Banning Brown Bagging: Chicago School Cracks Down on Homemade Lunches

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Kayla Webley - Apr. 13 (News) - The days of brown bagging it are over for students in a Chicago school. In an effort to encourage healthy eating, their principal banned lunches brought from home.

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A Little-Known Problem in Children With Autism: Wandering Away

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Amie Ninh - Apr. 13 (News) - For any parent, few things strike more fear than a missing child. But for parents of children with autism, the potential for wandering may be more dire: children with autism have a tendency to flee, and can sometimes put themselves in harm's way. Although it is a little-known problem, wandering is perhaps the leading cause of death among children with autism.

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The 'Health Halo:' Does Organic Food Really Taste Better?

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Meredith Melnick - Apr. 12 (News) - If a box of chocolate cookies had an "organic" label, would you feel less guilty about eating them? Would you think they were more nutritious, or tastier? Economists who study social psychology refer to something called the "halo effect," a bias in judgment that causes you to assume that one positive attribute comes packaged with a bunch of others.

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The Great Wall Street Sucking Sound

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Rana Foroohar - Mar. 31 (News Analysis) - 'We continue to let bankers off the hook by trimming the already inadequate budgets of the agencies that regulate them and shying away from restructuring the largest financial institutions in ways that would better protect consumers. Bankers will undoubtedly continue to push the story line that they are funding innovation. The question is whether it's the kind that's real or the kind that's synthetic.' Rana Foroohar, TIME

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The Tale of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant - Photo Essays - TIME

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Various Photographers - Mar. 23 (News Report) - Engineers battle the earthquake-damaged reactor in hopes of averting a catastrophic meltdown

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U.S. to Women's Rights Activist: No Visa for You - TIME

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By By Jason Motlagh - Mar. 22 (News Analysis) - The outspoken women's rights activist and fierce critic of the war in Afghanistan has been denied a travel visa on the eve of a three-week U.S. speaking tour. According to Joya, the reasons given by an Embassy officer — that she is "unemployed" and "lives underground" — make no sense since she's been the target of five assassination attempts that have forced her to live in hiding for several years with a team of armed bodyguards. U.S. officials are fully aware of that fact, she notes, and have never rejected her applications in the past. So why now?

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Obama vs. Whistle-Blowers: His Hard Line on Secrecy

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Mark Benjamin - Mar. 20 (News Analysis) - Army Private First Class Bradley Manning sleeps under tear-proof blankets. Guards check on him every five minutes; if his face isn't visible, they wake him to make sure he's O.K. And every night that he spends at the Marine brig in Quantico, Va., for allegedly providing WikiLeaks with hundreds of thousands of classified government documents, he is stripped naked, ostensibly for his own safety.

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Libya: Gaddafi Hometown May Be Key to His Destiny

Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Time - Mar. 05 (News Report) - The rebel forces in Benghazi have their eyes set on Tripoli, contemplating military action to take the Libyan capital if necessary. But if that goal is to be reached, they must move westward. And smack in the middle of their path will be the coastal city of Sert, which is the both the birthplace of Muammar Gaddafi and the heartland of his tribe, the Qadhadfa. Expect fierce and fearsome resistance if the rebels attack. "This really is the heartland of the regime," says Bruce St. John, author of seven books on Libya. "This would be a real prize for the opposition, but he clearly will defend it to the end, if he can."

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Exclusive Photos: Libya in Revolt - Photo Essays

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Time - By Yuri Kozyrev - Mar. 02 (Special Report) - Photographer Yuri Kozyrev documents the fighting Libya's eastern cities by opponents of Muammar Gaddafi.

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Libya's War of the Colonels: Col. Gaddafi Meet Col. Hussein

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Time - By Abigail Hauslohner - Feb. 26 (News) - At a former Army Air Defense base in a darkened, partially constructed neighborhood of Benghazi, Colonel Tarek Saad Hussein is readying the revolutionary forces for the ultimate battle. Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi will likely fight to the death in order to keep control of his capital Tripoli, according to soldiers and revolutionary activists alike. But the banners in front of Benghazi's High Court read: "Libya, one body. Tripoli, our heart." The east is now under opposition control, but Libya will not split, they say: the revolution is not over until Tripoli is won and a dictator is toppled.

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TIME Exclusive Photos: Crackdown in Bahrain - Photo Essays - TIME

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Time - By Yuri Kozyrev - Feb. 18 (Special Report) - After Bahraini security forces clear protesters from Pearl Square in the capital, TIME photographer Yuri Kozyrev witnesses the tragic results

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Twelve for '12: A Dozen Republicans Who Could Be the Next President

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Time - By Feifei Sun - Feb. 15 (News Report) - With the GOP's presidential-primary fight fast approaching, TIME looks at the prospective contenders to take on Barack Obama. Mitt Romney Of all the prospective Republican presidential candidates, Mitt Romney is the only one who could play himself in a movie. With a chiseled chin and a flawless coiffure, the son of a governor just looks the part. His wife, five sons and 14 grandchildren are equally photogenic. Stints at private-equity firm Bain Capital and atop the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games Organizing Committee have endeared Romney to business-friendly conservatives who favor his entrepreneurial approach, and as the former governor of a blue state, Romney has a desirable attribute: the ability to beat Democrats in competitive elections.

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