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...privacy violation for not blocking the video from the site. The officials - senior vice president and top legal officer David Drummond, chief privacy counsel Peter Fleischer and former chief financial officer George Reyes - each received a suspended six-month jail sentence. The ruling, which Google said it would appeal, has sparked a vigorous debate about the free flow of information and the legal responsibility of Web-platform companies to monitor the type of material that is posted to their sites. (See pictures of work and life at Google...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy's Google Verdict Starts Debate on Web Freedom | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

...almost unthinkable to go to Bangkok's private hospitals and not eat," says Ruben Toral, head of health care consultancy Mednet Asia and a former group marketing director at Bumrungrad. "These hospitals have a large captive audience and have learned that one way to win customers is to appeal to their stomachs." That's why Bumrungrad already hosts the "Roman-style" Portofino, the Bangla House (serving Bengali, Egyptian and Thai food) and the Au Bon Pain sandwich bar and deli, plus a McDonald's that makes in-house deliveries (hardly a cholesterol-reducing prescription...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wine and Dine in Bangkok's Private Hospitals | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

...looks. "You don't get an appreciation of it just by watching it," she says. "But if you actually get into it and do it, it's rigorous, hard, and takes a lot of training and dedication. As soon as you do it, you're like, 'Wow.' " (The appeal does indeed cut both ways. On Feb. 19, Cheryl Burke, a two-time Dancing champion, tweeted Evan Lysacek, the newly crowned Olympic men's figure-skating champion: "You're truly amazing!! How awesome would it be if you did DWTS? You would be great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up Next: Ice Dancing with the Stars? | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

Maybe the best example yet of the reality-fiction alliance is Fox's high school choir spoof Glee, which, in essence, is American Idol in teen-dramedy form. It is a literal re-creation of the pop appeal of Idol (just like Idol's, Glee's songs fly to the top of iTunes on a weekly basis). And it's also a critique of the American Idol culture that made it possible. In the words of Rachel (Lea Michele), "Nowadays, being anonymous is worse than being poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reality TV at 10: How It's Changed Television — and Us | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

Popular as he is among tweens and those who read to them, however, Percy's appeal may not extend beyond that group. The weekend before the movie's opening, about 600 fans turned up for an event in Atlanta, far fewer than your average Potter or Twilight draw. Then again, the franchise passes at least one Hollywood test: two of the film's stars, Pierce Brosnan and Kevin McKidd, signed on because their kids love the books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Percy Jackson | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

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