Forget brain-training exercises, 12-hour shifts and those long, uninterrupted, caffeine-fueled study binges. When you really need new information to sink in, you can't skimp on taking breaks, new research suggests.
Actress Marilu Henner talks to Dr. Drew about her amazing ability to remember every moment of her life.
There are lots of experts who have lots of opinions about New York City's new plan to encourage breast-feeding in new moms by urging hospitals not to give them baby formula. Advocates praise the move as a way to limit the influence of formula manufacturers on new mothers. Skeptics wonder whether the policy will shame women who choose not to breast-feed.
CNN's Elizabeth Cohen explains new research about the brains of extreme hoarders.
Chef Charles Mattocks stops by to talk with Suzanne Malveaux about the diabetes crisis in India.
Being overweight or obese is a risk factor for developing Type 2 diabetes, but it turns out that these heavier patients may have an advantage: people who are overweight when they are diagnosed with diabetes live longer than their thinner peers.
Young siblings saw the shooter outside and ran to alert the adults inside the temple. They're being hailed as heroes.
It may be the most common kind of child abuse ? and the most challenging to deal with. But psychological abuse, or emotional abuse, rarely gets the kind of attention that sexual or physical abuse receives.
Most of the time reading comments on the Internet is like attending a slightly dysfunctional family dinner, full of passionately argued, half-baked political theories and tasteless jokes.
There's a predictable cycle of mourning and finger-pointing that follows a massacre like the shootings last week in Aurora, Colorado. First come the calls for unity and flags flown at half-staff. Then the national fissures appear: The gun lobby stiffens its spine as gun control advocates make their case. Psychologists parse the shooter's background, looking for signs of mental illness or family disarray. Politicians point fingers about "society run amok" and "cultures of despair."
For all the heady talk about misleadingly "deific," recently confirmed quantum specks named after Scottish physicists, another kind of historic event just transpired: a record-shattering laser beam that, in a single shot fired on July 5, 2012, generated more power than the United States does at any single instant.
Back in April, a company called Next Issue Media launched its digital-magazine app. A joint venture of five big publishers -- Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corp and TIME's owner, Time Inc. -- it bundled a bunch of famous publications into a single app with all-you-can-read pricing.
Health experts offer tips for navigating the cereal aisle and finding the most nutritious -- and tastiest -- options among the fruity flakes and fiber twigs
Last month, Sean Parker of Napster fame launched Airtime.
CNN's Erin Burnett talks to the woman at the center of Time magazine's breast-feeding cover story.
Time Warner said Wednesday it has hired Digitas CEO Laura Lang to lead its Time Inc. magazine publishing division.
After less than six months on the job, Jack Griffin is out as CEO and chairman of Time Inc., the world's largest magazine publisher. An interim management committee will run Time Inc. until a permanent successor is found, said Jeff Bewkes, CEO of parent company Time Warner in an email to employees Thursday night.
TIME Magazine named Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg "Person of the Year." CNN's Mary Snow reports on the decision.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is Time magazine's Person of the Year, and, predictably, the internet has some thoughts about it.
The Facebook founder is cited for affecting the lives of more than half a billion people
How awesome is it to be at the top of your game when you haven't even reached 40? Just ask Todd Combs, who became the heir apparent to manage Warren Buffett's portfolio for Berkshire Hathaway at the age of 39. Or Marc Andreessen, the 39-year old entrepreneur and investor who took his first company public at 24 and now tops Fortune's 40 under 40 list. Or Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who has already had a major motion picture based on his life made and he's still only 26.
VBS sits down with Jim Frederick, whose book documents the experience of one Army platoon in Iraq. Go to VBS.TV for more.
Ann Moore, the chief executive of the world's largest magazine publisher Time Inc. is retiring, the company announced Monday, confirming reports from last week about a CEO shake up.
Ann Moore, the chief executive of Time Inc. -- the world's largest magazine publisher -- is stepping down from the company to be replaced by Jack Griffin, a group president of Meredith Corp., according to published reports.
Question: I'm 23 and contribute to my 401(k) plan. My employer also invests 4% of my salary in matching funds. But after reading a 2009 TIME Magazine story titled "Why It's Time to Retire the 401(k)" and seeing my parents lose significant amounts of their retirement savings after 9/11 and again in 2008, I'm wondering whether I should stop contributing to my 401(k). I'm confused. What is the best way to save long-term for retirement? --Andrew H.
TIME magazine's Michael Elliot talks about TIME's person of the year, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
Among those featured are John Mayer, Sheryl Crow, Whitney Houston and Nancy Reagan
From her secret talent to her sex appeal, find out some little-known fun facts about the First Lady
With hat and cigarette, the future president-elect – and Time's Person of the Year – is seen in revealing pictures
CNN's Kaushal Patel interviews TIME's Michael Elliott about the magazine's Heroes of the Environment.
The Person of the Year choice was greeted with media fanfare and critic complaints. Yuri Zarakhovich appraises the reaction
The New Yorker won awards for its stories about climate change and Vanity Fair publishes a "green" issue, but just try to find parent company Conde Nast's environmental policy. You can't.
Time Inc. will sell 18 magazine titles, including Parenting and Popular Science, to the Swedish firm Bonnier Magazine Group, the companies announced Thursday.
For over 50 years, Time magazine editors have chosen a "Person of the Year" to grace the cover of a special issue. The title is given to the person who, "for better or worse," the editors believe had the greatest impact on the year's events.
(Time.com) -- It's a debate that long predates Darwin, but the anti-religion position is being promoted with increasing insistence by scientists angered by intelligent design and excited, perhaps intoxicated, by their disciplines' increasing ability to map, quantify and change the nature of human experience.
(Time.com) -- Every revolution begins with the power of an idea and ends when the only idea left is power.
(Time.com) -- You don't have to be a biologist or an anthropologist to see how closely the great apes -- gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans -- resemble us.
(Time.com) -- If you ask anyone around Hillary Clinton the question that everyone is asking, the answer comes back in a shot: The freshman Senator from New York is far too busy concentrating on her re-election in November to be giving even a passing thought to 2008. Thank you very much.
Osama bin Laden's top deputy halted a plot to release a poison gas in New York's subway system "only 45 days from zero hour," according to a new book excerpted Saturday on Time magazine's Web site.
A Department of Homeland Security spokesman charged with soliciting a minor over the Internet was disciplined in a previous job after an incident in which pornographic images were seen on an office computer, his friends and former co-workers said.
On the premise that spring is too beautiful for a depressing topic like Iraq, I thought I'd take up a fun subject -- global warming.
The good deeds of an activist rock legend and one of the world's richest men and his wife carried the day in 2005, as TIME magazine on Sunday named U2 frontman Bono and philanthropic couple Bill and Melinda Gates as its "Persons of the Year."
Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald continued his investigation into the leaking of a CIA agent's name by taking sworn testimony from a Time magazine reporter Thursday, said a source close to Time Inc.
It can't be said anymore that blogging isn't a business. The problem now may be that blogging has too many business models to choose from.
"A poet writes one haiku in a lifetime," the 17th-century Japanese poet Basho said. "A master writes ten." A similar rule prevails in journalism, where even the best reporters are lucky to produce ...
In 1930 Henry Luce created an entirely new kind of magazine ...
A Time magazine reporter said Sunday his boss' decision to turn over his notes and e-mails to a grand jury could impair the magazine's ability to gather information.
Time Inc. announced Thursday it will turn over subpoenaed records from journalist Matt Cooper regarding the leak of a CIA operative's name, following a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court not to hear its appeal in the case.
Time Inc. announced Thursday it would turn over the subpoenaed records from journalist Matt Cooper regarding the leak of a CIA operative's name, even though it "strongly disagrees" with the court order.
The ongoing tug-of-war between regulators and tobacco companies has returned to the schools, with a new report that media publishers have agreed to pull tobacco ads from school-bound magazines upon request.
The U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay is drawing fresh criticism following a Time magazine report on a logbook tracing the treatment of a detainee who officials believe was intended to take part in the September 11, 2001, attacks.
Southwest Airlines will file a friend of the court brief next week in support of 12 pilots who are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the Federal Aviation Administration's requirement that pilots retire at age 60, Time magazine reports.
Back in 1929, Time Inc. co-founder Henry Luce proposed a new publication, FORTUNE, that would be "the most beautiful magazine yet attempted in this country--so strikingly illustrated that nearly ev...
Publishing powerhouse Time Inc. and Wal-Mart reportedly have a deal that would give the retailer exclusive distribution rights to a new low-priced women's magazine, a report said Monday.
Gerald M. Levin officially stepped down as CEO of AOL Time Warner last week, bringing to a close a remarkable business career. For the past ten years he has sat atop a media empire whose vast holdi...
You've probably heard of the latest disease to strike high-level businesswomen: "an epidemic of childlessness." So says Sylvia Ann Hewlett, an economist whose Creating a Life: Professional Women an...
As business journalists, we always begin a new year wondering what's likely to be the story of the year, the seminal subject that seizes our attention and makes us rethink everything. Sometimes it'...
There's never been a more entertaining financial catastrophe than the implosion of Long-Term Capital Management. For a start, it was hard to beat for sheer drama: The infamous hedge fund lost more ...
Not so long ago, I was like most twentysomething baby boomers entering the work force. In the mid-1970s, I was just starting a job and thinking more about having enough cash for a couple of beers w...
There's a new name at the top of this issue's masthead: Norman Pearlstine has succeeded Jason McManus as editor-in-chief of Time Warner, with overall editorial responsibility for the largest magazi...
INVESTOR'S GUIDE/COVER STORIES 47 INVESTING IN A NEW ERA
MANAGING/COVER STORY AT&T'S $12 BILLION 100 CELLULAR DREAM Until it bought McCaw, AT&T was naked in its industry's fastest-growing / business. Now it must embrace its cellular baby without smotheri...
MANAGING/COVER STORY 48 HOW TO LEAD A REVOLUTION The competitive rigors of the new economy are often too big and too urgent to be addressed by anything less than change on a grand scale. Rising abo...
MANAGING/COVER STORY 52 WHY COMPANIES FAIL Every corporate disaster tells its own awful story. Yet most debacles are the result of the people at the top making one (or more) of six big mistakes -- ...
COVER STORY 72 WE RATE THE 25 BIGGEST FUNDS by Carla Fried, Prashanta Misra and Susan Scherreik Buy Magellan. Sell the Dean Witter U.S. Gov. fund. And 23 other informed investment calls.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jason McManus EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Henry Muller EDITOR OF NEW MEDIA Walter Isaacson
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jason McManus EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Henry Muller EDITOR OF NEW MEDIA Walter Isaacson
MANAGING/COVER STORY 62 THE END OF THE JOB As a way of organizing work, the traditional job is becoming a social artifact, created in the 19th century and well suited to the demands of a newly indu...
6 Avoid These Hidden Money Traps Our exclusive nationwide student poll uncovers some surprising findings -- and sensible advice as you begin your search. by Lesley Alderman
Editor-in-Chief Jason McManus Editorial Director Henry Muller Editor of New Media Walter Isaacson
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jason McManus EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Henry Muller EDITOR OF NEW MEDIA Walter Isaacson
COVER STORY 126 THE BEST PLACES TO LIVE IN AMERICA by Marguerite T. Smith and Sheryl Nance-Nash Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, N.C. tops MONEY's eighth annual ranking of the nation's 300 biggest metro...
THE ECONOMY/COVER STORY 56 THE NEW WORKER ELITE Technicians are taking on a bigger role and commanding greater respect as the core employees of the digital Information Age. Companies that hope to g...
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jason McManus EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Henry Muller EDITOR OF NEW MEDIA Walter Isaacson Founder Henry R. Luce, 1898-1967
MANAGING/COVER STORY 42 LESSONS FROM AMERICA'S FASTEST-GROWING COMPANIES These burgeoning businesses are helping establish a new economic order by taking advantage of the only constant in business:...
COVER STORY 44 THE 10 BEST FUNDS TODAY by Jerry Edgerton Only a handful of fund managers possess the proven ability to stay at the head of the pack time after time. Here they are.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jason McManus EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Henry Muller EDITOR OF NEW MEDIA Walter Isaacson
MANAGING/COVER STORY 44 BURNED-OUT BOSSES Talk about conflicting messages! Managers in the Nineties are supposed to think of themselves and their employees as a team, yet at the same time they are ...
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY/SPECIAL REPORT 44 MANAGING IN A WIRED COMPANY An organization becomes a different animal when it gets network technology. The old ways of harnessing the beast won't work. Her...
COVER STORY 72 WHERE TO PUT $1,000, $10,000, $25,000 OR MORE TODAY by Penelope Wang These 24 outstanding mutual funds and stocks will meet the needs of all investors, from beginners to veterans. --...
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jason McManus EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Henry Muller EDITOR OF NEW MEDIA Walter Isaacson
THE NEW ECONOMY/SPECIAL REPORT 36 WAKING UP TO THE NEW ECONOMY Embrace it, for it will transform our lives and work more profoundly than we can imagineand nothing is going to stop it. by John Huey
MANAGING/COVER STORIES 44 WHAT COMPANIES AND EMPLOYEES OWE ONE ANOTHER Loyalty? Job security? They're nearly dead. But employers that deliver honesty and satisfying work can expect a new form of co...
COVER STORY 72 BUY STOCKS NOW! by Michael Sivy We are headed for a stock-buying opportunity of a lifetime that will power the Dow to one record after another. -- Table: 12 stocks and 12 funds to bu...
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jason McManus EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Henry Muller EDITOR OF NEW MEDIA Walter Isaacson
AUTOS/COVER STORY 56 IACOCCA'S MINIVAN Here's how Chrysler succeeded (and GM and Ford failed) in creating one of the most profitable products of the decade. As always, luck, timing, and moxie playe...
CAREERS/COVER STORIES 46 HOW TO GET AHEAD IN AMERICA Climbing in your career calls for being clear about your personal goals, learning how to add value, and developing skills you can take anywhere....
FEATURES 6 Make More Money in Mutual Funds With today's uncertain stock market, it's not as easy as it used to be. Still, for financial goals that are five or more years away, you can't afford not ...
Editor-in-Chief Jason McManus Editorial Director Henry Muller Editor of New Media Walter Isaacson
MANAGING/COVER STORY 44 IS HERB KELLEHER AMERICA'S BEST CEO? Behind his clowning is a people-wise manager who wins where others can't. In an industry that has been losing billions, Southwest Airlin...
COVER STORIES 74 THE SEVEN BIGGEST INVESTING MISTAKES by Elizabeth Fenner In today's markets, you can't afford to make these goofs -- from dodging the wrong risks to impulse buying. We tell how to ...
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jason McManus EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Henry Muller EDITOR OF NEW MEDIA Walter Isaacson
AUTOS/COVER STORY 50 THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF AUTOS Driven by the success of hot-selling vans and trucks, the Big Three are on a roll. But will Detroit grow complacent? Not this time, say U.S. car exe...
COVER STORY 74 HOW TO EARN 15% ON YOUR INVESTMENTS by Beth Kobliner We've tracked down a promising dozen stocks and mutual funds that figure to reach that enviable goal over the next 12 months. fea...
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jason McManus EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Henry Muller EDITOR OF NEW MEDIA Walter Isaacson
ENTREPRENEURS/COVER STORY 34 AMERICA'S SMARTEST YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS Before hitting 40, these men and women built companies that generated $17 billion in sales last year and have created nearly 64,0...
Contents 6 The Six New Rules for Retirement by Ruth Simon Follow them to future financial security. -- Profiles: Starting out (page 8), two-career couple (11), single parent / (12), family with tee...



