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...just the absence of adults from their lives that contributes to unhappiness among Britain's teenagers. So do pervasive but invisible social barriers of class and race. Income inequality is greater in Britain than the rest of western Europe, and the gap between its poorest and richest citizens has been growing since the 1980s. Social divisions have proved remarkably resilient, and British kids born into poverty - as many as one in three, according to the Children's Society - still start life at a serious disadvantage. Britons "continue to believe that poor people just need a kick up the backside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain's Mean Streets | 3/26/2008 | See Source »

...lead scientist at the Nature Conservancy, one of the richest and most influential green groups in the U.S., Sanjayan fights for biodiversity. The concept is the backbone of the environmental movement, a recognition that the unimaginable variety of wildlife is an essential part of what makes our planet special, and worthy of protection for its own sake. But Sanjayan is worried that the conservation movement to which he has dedicated his life may be overlooking another kind of diversity: racial diversity. An American of South Asian descent (like many people from his native Sri Lanka, he generally uses one name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Changing the White Face of the Green Movement | 3/23/2008 | See Source »

These days the company enforces strict ethical, social and environmental standards in its own factories and in those of its 48 producing partners worldwide. And, as LVMH and Prada do, it plays up its contemporary-art chops. Hugo Boss donates one of the world's richest contemporary-art prizes, the biennial Hugo Boss Prize, worth $100,000 this year. The company also is a major sponsor of the Berlin International Film Festival and, in sports, has a long-standing relationship with Formula One racing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Boss | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...taste of the paper's editorial outlook, just talk to Dmitri Muratov, its editor in chief. "Putin has created the largest, richest bureaucracy in the world, and the funds have been sucked out of society." Muratov calls the siloviki--the strong-arm factions that make up much of the Defense Ministry, the Interior Ministry, the secret police--a "business, whose only concern is hoarding money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Moscow | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...This interview. I have a production deal with HBO, so I have a couple of TV shows with them. One about the UFO alien death cult. And another one about a man trying to become the richest man in the world. So just TV shows, a couple movies, some Internet stuff. I want to try to suck in every media...

Author: By Sachi A. Ezura, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Q With Ben Karlin | 3/5/2008 | See Source »

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