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THE SECRET LIFE OF GROCERIESThe Dark Miracle of the American SupermarketBy Benjamin Lorr The average grocery stocks 32,000 distinct products. Browsing the aisles consumes 2 percent of our lives. It [...]

The article presents a July 2012 power rankings list of the top 100 most influential and innovative people as voted on by their peers, including U.S. military whistleblower Bradley Manning, "Washington Post" writer Ezra Klein, and U.S. Senator Ron Wyden.

The article discusses the streaming video platform Netflix and its expansion into original television series production. Topics include the careers of chief content officer Ted Sarandos and chief executive officer Redd Hastings, the series premiers planned for 2013, and the company's failed plan in 2011 to charge separately for DVD and streaming products.

The article presents discussion regarding the features of the commercial advertising industry of the U.S. as of 2012. Examples of several successful campaigns which utilized creative designs and selective distribution techniques are given, highlighting the use of the Internet. Comparisons and contrasts are also offered between the industry of 2012 and the 1960s corporate setting of the television show "Mad Men."

The article reports on criticisms of the sports television network ESPN. It is suggested that the network's focus on live game broadcasting has driven up costs for cable television subscribers as ESPN has passed along the costs of attaining broadcast rights to cable operators. Other critics have charged that ESPN has compromised its journalistic ethics by not reporting stories that portray sports in a negative light in order to maintain access to sports stars they need to promote their network.

The article offers opinions and predictions about options for U.S. President Barack Obama if he loses the U.S. 2012 presidential election. It describes the likelihood and annual earnings of options including being a stay-at-home father, becoming an author of bestsellers, being a U.S. Supreme Court justice, and funding charities.

The article looks at media company Bloomberg. Topics discussed include how the company's 2011 acquisition of the Bureau of National Affairs, a news service, services lobbyists, the company's BGov and BLaw online subscription services, and its chief executive officer Dan Doctoroff. Several Bloomberg journalists are mentioned including Daniel Golden and David Evans. Mike Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, is noted as the company's owner.

The article discusses an economic recovery in the U.S. Over a 13-month period stock prices have risen 70%. In addition automobile sales have increased, the U.S. dollar has gained strength, and in March, 2010 the economy created 162,000 jobs. The author attributes the U.S. rebound from a deep recession to a willingness by firms to restructure, write off bad debts, and become more efficient. In his view companies such as Apple Inc. and Google Inc. embody the kind of innovation he believes could help make the recovery a sustainable one.

The article evaluates the iPad tablet computer from Apple.

The article reports on computer security. Security passwords are a necessity for Internet users and many have no more than 6 passwords which are used for multiple Web sites. Carnegie Mellon University has a cybersecurity research department which is working on technology security which may make computer security easier for both Internet users and corporations.

The article states that, while the U.S. economic recession is likely coming to an end, this does not imply that all economic hardships will end within the nation. The author urges that growth in the gross domestic product (GDP) is not enough to provide families with the money essential to domestic finance, such as paying mortgages and purchasing groceries. Unemployment is likely to continue to grow, according to U.S. chief economic adviser Larry Summers.

The article focuses on industrial designer and marketing executive Peter Arnell. Arnell is considered an expert at branding of products, but his company, the Arnell Group, recently suffered an embarrassing failure. A redesign of the packaging of Tropicana orange joice, part of Arnell's design work for Pepsico, created complaints from consumers they could no longer find the product in supermarkets, and the design was abandoned.

Byline: Nick Summers Nothin' but a G Thang A discontented winter got a little brighter last week for Lindsey Vonn, who took first place in the women's super-G event in [...]

Byline: --Nick Summers LAS VEGAS A record 37 million Mexican boxing fans--nearly a third of the country's total population--tuned in to see Juan Manuel Marquez, left, step into the ring [...]

Byline: Nick Summers Fresh from the White House, Obama's champion is back in a new stoner comedy. In the 2008 presidential race, plenty of Hollywood A-listers lent their names to [...]

Byline: Nick Summers The NPR Morning Edition host talks about Pakistan, the subject of his new book, and why some people might find him annoying. What drew you to Pakistan [...]

Byline: Nick Summers They say he was one of a kind. But someone has to fill Jobs's sneakers. LARRY PAGE Google A computational genius--Google's crucial 'PageRank' technology is named after [...]

Byline: Nick Summers; Nick Summers is a senior writer for Newsweek covering media. Ousted from Apple, Jobs looked to moviemaking for salvation--and nearly bankrupted himself in the process. Computers didn't [...]

Byline: Nick Summers The stakes are getting higher for U.S. college students in programs abroad--and it's not just about going wild overseas. 'In every study-abroad program, you're going to find [...]

Byline: Nick Summers Baseball brainiac Billy Beane is being played by Brad Pitt on the big screen. The subtitle of the book Moneyball is The Art of Winning an Unfair [...]

Winged Victor The fastest man in the world has once more lived up to his name. Despite a false start that disqualified him from the 100-meter dash, Usain Bolt struck [...]

Byline: Nick Summers With its stock diving, the original smart-phone maker is losing its signal. A guide to the changing fortunes of Research in Motion, once the star of boardrooms [...]

Byline: Nick Summers Every high school has hope. Here are the places doing more with less. It's one thing to crack NEWSWEEK's list with top facilities and handpicked students. But [...]

Byline: Bryan Curtis and Nick Summers Osama bin Laden is dead. These nine titles will help you understand his life. The Osama bin Laden story has always been large, suited [...]

Byline: Nick Summers Mom, Dad, and an anxious 17-year-old embark on a 1,500-mile quest for the perfect college-half-naked coeds included. 'I know I'm obsessing about this,' Frank Holland says, speeding [...]

Byline: Nick Summers When revolution came to Cairo, two groups panicked: Hosni Mubarak's regime--and cable-TV bookers, who needed an infusion of Egypt experts. Qualifications: know Egypt well, ad-lib with aplomb, [...]

Byline: Nick Summers It takes more than a hit movie to disrupt the social pillars that have stood at Harvard for 200 years. But with The Social Network up for [...]

Byline: Nick Summers and Michael Picon When it comes to getting elected, they're not everything. Social networking is an important political tool (see @SenJohnMcCain's 1.7 million Twitter followers), but in [...]

Byline: Nick Summers Not likely. The number of inmates who escape or go AWOL from prison has plummeted--even as the total correctional population has surged 68 percent, to 2.3 million. [...]

Byline: Nick Summers Nothing inspires a gold rush quite like, well, gold. Since July the precious metal has spiked to more than $1,300 an ounce--a rally on top of a [...]

Byline: Nick Summers The idea that less is more has long held true in the arts. In the world of gadgets, not so much. Each year's crop of products is [...]

Byline: Nick Summers As the internet has radically transformed the flow of information around the world, only a few companies have been so successful as to make their own name [...]

Byline: Number 17, NYC and Nick Summers Not when the penalties add up to less than 1 percent of annual revenue. At scales like this, corporations can treat regulatory action [...]

Byline: Number 17, NYC, McKay Coppins, and Nick Summers There's a movement afoot to alter the 14th Amendment, the one that guarantees citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil. Combine [...]

Byline: Nick Summers With the consumer price index flatlining, economists are watching warily for signs of deflation. The Fed said on Aug. 10 it would buy Treasury bonds to ward [...]

Byline: Number 17, NYC and Nick Summers Yes--if it's used as an adjective, say, or after 10 p.m. Indecency rules have been in flux since the early days of radio. [...]

Byline: Nick Summers 'Design isn't merely about making products aesthetically beautiful,' writes Jay Greene, a former BusinessWeek staffer, in Design Is How It Works. It's about 'creating experiences that consumers [...]

Byline: Nick Summers When Tesla Motors went public June 29, it was hailed as the first IPO by an American automaker since Ford in 1956. Shares spiked 41apercent, raising $226amillion [...]

Byline: Daniel Lyons; With Nick Summers Apple CEO Steve Jobs recently called the new iPhonea4 'the most precise, beautiful thing we've ever designed.' He waxed on about its mind-blowing video-chat [...]

Byline: Nick Summers Theories of how Alvin Greene won South Carolina's Democratic Senate primary include fraud and fortunate ballot placement. Here's a new one: pushy technology. The Palmetto State uses [...]

Byline: Number 17, NYC and Nick Summers I, John Q. Public, being of sound mind and body, do hereby make, publish, and declare the following facts about the 2010 estate-tax [...]

Byline: Nick Summers The new rules of management for people who hate rules. And management. It's the kind of outcome most entrepreneurs only dream of. Last September, the financial-planning startup [...]

Byline: Nick Summers After a recent ski trip in California with friends, I needed to reimburse one of them for the equipment she'd rented on my behalf. I didn't have [...]

Byline: Nick Summers On March 18, 1990, two thieves stole $500 million in art from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum--including works by Degas, Manet, Rembrandt, and Vermeer. None have been [...]

Byline: Nick Summers It's become the internet's most predictable phenomenon: whenever Facebook redesigns its site, users revolt by the millions. Each major upgrade, from the 2006 introduction of its news [...]

Byline: Nick Summers For cybersecurity geeks, it was a moment to celebrate. In May, as President Obama announced a new federal office to oversee America's digital infrastructure, he used language [...]

Byline: Nick Summers After Atari popularized the joystick in 1977, videogame developers spent years cramming more buttons onto the controller. Then along came Nintendo, with a motion-sensing controller for its [...]

Byline: Nick Summers; Sources: AP, Boulder Camera, Lawrence Journal-World, New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post Some homes are fixer-uppers -- some are the site of grisly homicides. After [...]