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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...allow Russian speakers to be the first to register Web addresses in their native Cyrillic script rather than in Latin letters like everybody else. Andrei Kolesnikov, the official in charge of implementing the idea and registering Cyrillic domain names, says using the Russian language online is the nation's "birthright." He concedes, however, that it offers "no technical difference or advantage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a Russian Silicon Valley Spur Tech Innovation? | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...Drama of Powerful Forms Saarinen was a Modernist by birthright. His father Eliel was a Finnish architect whose radically clean-lined entry in the 1922 competition to design the Chicago Tribune Tower took second place in the contest but first place in history. For a rising generation of architects, that unbuilt proposal was an arrow pointing straight to the future and a strong influence on the Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center. The fame it brought the elder Saarinen in the U.S. persuaded him to emigrate the following year from Finland to Chicago. A few months later, his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eero Dynamic | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), serves as Prime Minister, has "lived more than half its life," Mugabe told the annual conference of his Zimbabwean African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF). His party should prepare for a fresh vote, he said, in a spirit of "never [surrendering] your birthright." (See pictures of political high tension in Zimbabwe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Elections: Zimbabwe's Leaders Trade Positions | 1/23/2010 | See Source »

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