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...peak-season rates were released back in early September, so clients know today exactly what they will pay next year without the fear of exchange fluctuations," says Sarah-Leigh Shenton, marketing manager for British-based Sanctuary Villas and Apartments, www.sanctuary-villas.com. The firm priced its products in dollars for the first time this year. "This helps drive early bookings for us, while offering savings of at least 15% for clients," Shenton says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Good Run for Your Money | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

...that girls work with coaches to strengthen their neck muscles. Another solution, especially for soccer players, is to wear protective headgear. Since its inception in 2002, a San Diego-based company, Full 90, has sold some 200,000 soft, padded headbands to soccer players. A recent study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that the band reduced concussion risk among a group of Canadian adolescent soccer players. But some experts worry that the bands may spur more reckless on-field behavior. "I fear that kids will put these things on their heads and feel invincible," says Guskiewicz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Head Games | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL, former spokesman for Tony Blair, on why Blair avoided talking about religion while in office. Blair now says his faith was "hugely important" to his performance while he was British Prime Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

...Wealth If Malaysia's races are separating, it is partly because of the legacy of the New Economic Policy (NEP), an ethnically based affirmative-action plan instituted in 1971 to create opportunities for the economically disadvantaged Malays. During colonial times, Chinese traders were favored by the ruling British, and they controlled much of the economy upon independence. Malays and indigenous peoples - collectively known as bumiputras, or "sons of the soil" - wanted to redress that economic imbalance. The NEP, which offers preferential treatment to bumiputras in everything from education to politics, has lifted millions of Malays into the middle class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Identity Crisis | 11/28/2007 | See Source »

...very attractive woman, his eye will wander ... He doesn't look like your classic religious sort of guy.' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL, former spokesman for Tony Blair, on why Blair avoided talking about religion while in office. Blair now says his faith was "hugely important" to his performance while he was British Prime Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 11/28/2007 | See Source »

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