How should NASCAR rev up its popularity during a recession? Maybe Bruton Smith has the answer.
Daytona Drag: NASCAR Tries to Outrace the Recession
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Everyone’s an Expert in the New Dating Game
Some of them are respected scientists. Some of them are psychologists. At least one of them is a briefly married former TV-morning-show host
Saving the Real Estate Market by Paying the Neighbor’s Mortgage
The quickest way to help the auto industry would be to make sure that no one in the U.S. defaults on a car loan. Certainly the government could make sure that people who are employed and do not have a history of being deadbeats get a portion of their car loans paid.
Is China Making Its Bird-Flu Outbreak Worse?
One thing is certain about avian influenza: it’s deadly. All three people who contracted the H5N1 strain of the virus in China last year died.
Why Portugal Is Offering to Take in Gitmo Inmates
France and Finland are thinking it over. Spain has balked because of legal ramifications.
Love, Erica Jong Style
Erica Jong knows something about love, especially its sexy side.
Hillary Clinton warns, woos North Korea
North Korea’s nuclear program is "the most acute challenge to stability in northeast Asia," U.S.
Google tests home energy-use tracker
You can manage your bank balance and social life on the Internet and very soon you will be able to manage your electricity consumption online.
Brown casts final vote; Senate approves stimulus package
The U.S. Senate has given final approval to a $787 billion economic-stimulus package backed by President Obama, with Democratic Ohio Sen
Talking to Iran: What Are Washington’s Options?
President Obama says he’ll talk to Iran if Tehran “unclenches its fist”; President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran is open to negotiations but only on a basis of “fairness and mutual respect.” Both men’s coded conditionals are a reminder that after three decades of mutual hostility, talking won’t be easy. TIME tapped a number of Iran experts for perspective on some of the key questions facing U.S.-Iran diplomacy