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...dollars in central-government aid for "building a new socialist countryside." The reference to rural socialism was pure marketing magic; many farmers miss the good old days when nearly everyone was poor-but at least the state provided a safety net, known in China as an "iron rice bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is China Turning Back the Clock? | 3/14/2006 | See Source »

...drive a fast car! He wants to learn how to fly an airplane! He wants to have three of them! I bet you if you could pay to go to Mars, he'd do that. And I'd be like, You know what? I've TiVoed the Super Bowl, and I'm just gonna eat popcorn. I'll see ya when you get home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Jodie Foster | 3/12/2006 | See Source »

...record nine minutes on the test before last year’s draft). What we did learn, however, was that this so-called measure of intelligence is meaningless. That the last time Young scored six points that mattered, it was the game-winning run against USC in the Rose Bowl, Division I-A’s national championship game.That, when it comes to student-athletes, what they do in the field of play is what people care about. And that when a school places greater emphasis on the student portion of that double entendre, no one should feel sorry...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE MALCOM X-FACTOR: Athletes In Class Of Their Own | 3/9/2006 | See Source »

...geysered from his seat in joyous shock, and revelry exploded among what seemed like half of the 5,000 audience members at the Kodak Theater. One of the revelers did such ecstatic contortions, she nearly fell out of her gown. The rest hugged one another like brand-new Super Bowl champs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Crash' Is King | 3/6/2006 | See Source »

...video content of the National Archives, including United Newsreel Motion Pictures from the Second World War, NASA documentaries from the ’60s, and a variety of other footage. Google video (video.google.com), once viewed by college students only as a tool for wasting time watching clever Super Bowl commercials and home movies of suburban teenagers blowing up Pepsi bottles with Mentos, may yet serve a more valuable purpose.Another organization, the Internet Archive (archive.org), was founded in 1996 to store old copies of the Internet so that we can now look at the contents of the web from years past...

Author: By Matthew A. Gline, | Title: Bits of History | 2/28/2006 | See Source »

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