If you wouldn't eat your bath and body products, you're using the wrong stuff, says Teporah Bilezikian, owner of the makeup company Monavé: "Cosmetics are like fresh batches of pudding -- they shouldn't last six months."READ»
While most of the focus on financial innovation gone awry has been on Wall Street wheeler-dealers, the multibillion-dollar boom in "alternative financing" for the working poor is more fascinating. Gary Rivlin rivets readers with the ...READ»
Worst. Company. Ever. That's the inevitable conclusion in documentarian Marie-Monique Robin's perversely fascinating investigation of Monsanto, the chemical company turned $11.7 billion agribusiness giant. She details how the ...READ»
Peter Rad
Whether photographing drug smugglers or suburban swingers, paintball players or the eco-paranoid, Peter Rad approaches his subjects as a storyteller. "I often script dialogue for the actors in my images," he says, in the ...READ»
"David from New York is calling about the problems with baseball's business. On Opening Day?" "First-time caller, longtime listener. Red Sox -- Yankees is a great rivalry, but these are rich teams. The big guys shelled out $400 ...READ»
"New technology, new markets, global interconnectivity, doesn't matter," veteran fixer Leo Moss says to neophyte Milo Burke in this darkly comic novel by Sam Lipsyte. "It's still the rulers and the ruled." Lipsyte considers "late ...READ»
"Does this outfit still work?" That's a question I ask my wife way too often, after I pull out an older garment from my closet or drawer. Bell-bottom pants. Skinny ties. Pleated anything. Clothing goes in and out of style, rising in ...READ»
"If we solve search," Google cofounder Larry Page told a class at Stanford in 2002, "that means you can answer any question. Which means you can do basically anything." Googled tells the story of the search rocket's relentless ...READ»
This book could be nick-named "The Hangover." Journalist and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich saw America binge on the power of positive thinking, and now tries to piece together what the hell happened. In the process, she dissects ...READ»
America may be 233 years old, but really, she's a teenage girl with bulimia. In this fascinating account of our nation's binge-and-purge cycle of spending and sacrifice, Weber, a second-generation cheapskate -- her father reuses a tea ...READ»
Each year, the average American eats 16 pounds of fries, 23 pounds of pizza, and 26 pounds of candy. Let's just say the CDC may have bittenoff more than it can chew with this inaugural conference dedicated to combating the obesity ...READ»
PREVIEWQuestioning now why I even need to make online comments. I am not a commentator, I am an observer and a lot of other things that end in "er". There is a "fun" aspect to this and comments can be an enjoyable thing, ...READ»
If you're a man taller than 6'3" or a woman over 5'9", meet your new
bible. Cohen, 6'3", gives talls a pep talk, highlighting research that
shows they'll make an additional $789 per inch per year over ...READ»
Watch out, Stan Lee! You're not the only old coot trying to cash in
again on a decades-old creative burst. Seventies schlockmeisters Sid
and Marty Krofft make their bid for Marvel Comics -- like cultural
relevance via Will ...READ»
A tragic plane crash, a drug-addicted scion, a bitter lawsuit--these juicy ingredients should make for a tasty corporate drama. Alas, they don't, because the company is In-N-Out Burger, and seemingly nothing can derail the beloved ...READ»
