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...Technically, McDonald's is doing nothing wrong. Since the U.K. rights on the designs of the chairs have expired, this is all perfectly legal. Thanks to U.K. design rights law - which holds that the rights on a design last a maximum of 25 years, instead of 70 as in much of Europe - British furniture stores and websites are legitimately selling copies of the Egg chair, for example, for a fraction of the original's $5,000 price tag. "A commercial decision was taken to use some reproduction similar chairs," Lorraine Homer, spokeswoman for McDonald's in the U.K., tells TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Seating Problem at McDonald's | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

...this oncoming force and use it to our advantage. That's the opposite of waste. That's where we have bought us the time to have more life than we have and enjoy it even more. It turns out that the fortuneteller was wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with The Age of Speed author Vince Poscente | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

...should get closer," says the young Burmese woman in the crowd behind me. "If foreigners are there they won't shoot." She is terribly wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blood, Robes And Tears: A Rangoon Diary | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

...boozing and smooching docs might set a bad example for medical practitioners, but what's wrong with flying saucers or a musical monk? Apichatpong, 37, spent two years filming the story, based loosely on the lives of his physician parents, and says he doesn't know why Thailand's censors wanted to cut the four scenes. He also refused to play along. So Syndromes, which opened last month in London as part of an Apichatpong season at BFI Southbank, won't be showing anytime soon in Bangkok. "I'm sick of this system," the director sighs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making the Cut | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

...simplistic picture of the not-for-profit sector, Reich elected a sound strategy. Sure, some institutions do more for the disadvantaged than others. But the conclusion that more revenue should be raised through separation of non-profits into two groups with different taxation policies is a step in the wrong direction in terms of pushing Americans to give to charity...

Author: By Jan Zilinsky | Title: Is Harvard good for society? | 10/10/2007 | See Source »

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