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...what the black musicians were doing. By 1963, the pop charts really were intensely integrated. Billboard magazine stopped having a separate pop and R&B chart because the two charts were virtually identical. And the Beatles single-handedly re-segregated those charts. The Beatles hit white America like the biggest thing to happen maybe ever, and they hardly hit black America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did the Beatles Destroy Rock 'n' Roll? | 6/24/2009 | See Source »

...says he has helped prevent 188 potential suicides. After he's talked them off the cliffs, Shige--a trained counselor--takes them to his small office, where two gas heaters keep a kettle boiling, ready to make the tea that accompanies his counseling sessions. For men, Shige says, the biggest problems are debt and unemployment; most of the women are there because of depression or health issues. "If it's a case of sexual harassment, I'll go with her to the office and confront her boss," says Shige. "If a child has issues with his father, I tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Tojinbo Cliffs | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

When asked what the biggest challenge is, in terms of getting important data, former New Hampshire Senator John Sununu, the second Republican on the panel, pauses for a long time. "Working with Treasury is like working with any other government entity," he says. "If you're talking to the right person and have a good relationship with them, you can get access to information in a timely way. If you're not successful at making your request a priority for them, it may take a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elizabeth Warren: Riding Herd on the Bailout | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

Florida, like many of America's biggest states, can be frustrating to traverse. Driving between such major cities as Miami and Tampa is a back-numbing haul; flying between them, especially at the exorbitant fares many airlines charge, often seems impractical. And as the peninsula state's population has exploded in recent years - Florida is set to pass New York as the nation's third largest state - its road and air corridors have become more gridlocked and eco-unfriendly. Which is why Floridians voted in 2000 to build a high-speed bullet-train service between Miami, Tampa and Orlando...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Stimulus Puts Bullet Trains on the Fast Track | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

...MacKinnon also notes that there's plenty of evidence that searches conducted on Baidu - Google's main rival in China and the company with by far the biggest share of the search-engine market - produce just as many or more links to pornographic sites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chinese Government Attacks Google Over Internet Porn | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

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