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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...British story line. In the end, successful foreign-transplant shows are not really "imported"; they immigrate. Eventually, they need to learn a new dialect and new mores. If they succeed - like Archie Bunker and all TV's other Ellis Island inductees - they'll have to find a way to adapt, take root and thrive in their new home country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall TV: Remade in the USA | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

...room facility equipped with negative airflow, which contains and filters air circulating through TB wards. A single such center is hardly enough, but it is a start. "It shows you it is possible," says Raviglione. And that is the most powerful lesson in TB today. The bug can adapt; if we're smart, so can we. -with reporting by Megan Lindow/Cape Town, Madhur Singh/New Delhi and Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tuberculosis: An Ancient Disease Continues to Thrive | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...results in as little as two days. But for most TB-ravaged nations, adopting the technique will require upgrading lab facilities. That's not easy, but it's something WHO hopes will ultimately help these countries battle not just TB but other infectious diseases as well. TB bacilli have adapted over millenniums; to control the scourge, we must adapt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Forgotten Plague | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

Following shows about Mormon sex, vampire sex and boring couple sex, HBO to adapt TOM WOLFE book about college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...believe they can't: address issues people actually care about--as opposed to those the respectable media care about--and say what they actually think. Once upon a time, journalists' circumspection was a source of authority; increasingly, it just seems like phoniness. And while traditional media are trying to adapt to a bloggier, more opinionated age, they're still largely accustomed to the old standards of equivalency: the notion that if candidate X commits a transgression, "balance" requires that you find an equivalent from candidate Y--or at least an X supporter willing to claim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lessons from The View | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

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