Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane nabbed a record $100 million deal with Fox and is teaching Google new ways to exploit the Web. Could this crude frat-boy cartoonist really be a model for business in the postmodern age? By Josh Dean
The first woman CEO of one of the world's biggest mining companies is pushing a wildly controversial project. At stake: a half-trillion dollars' worth of minerals, millions of wild salmon, and a new corporate strategy for a tarnished industry. By Melanie Warner
As Costco marks its 25th year, straight-talking CEO Jim Sinegal shares his two cents on sustainability, the economy, universal health care, and what our next president should do. By Jeff Chu + Kate Rockwood
Travel has never been worse -- US Airways now charges two bucks for a can of soda?! Meet the highfliers working to make the terminal experience bliss. By Dave Demerjian
On November 1, 1968, bowing to howls that movies were corrupting youth, the film industry unveiled a voluntary rating system, which told youth what to see to be corrupted. The ratings have evolved (X is now NC-17, though we still say "X" since "triple-NC-17" sounds lame), but kids' desire to sneak into R movies hasn't changed. Here's a look at the system and its stats. By Clay Dillow
Jetsons-style apps that measure just what we're consuming are the hottest trend in sustainable business. Can the energy savings trump the privacy hit? By Anya Kamenetz
MTV famously missed its chance to buy MySpace. Now the network's president, Van Toffler, is investing in dozens of digital media projects -- and one might soon be a billion-dollar business. By Robert Levine
Peter Gabriel has always been an innovator (remember those Genesis costumes?), but his digital-media ventures are as ambitious as anything he has done onstage. Four more in addition to the Hub:
