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...them too much of it. For 130 years, the pinnacle of cricket has been the Test match, a five-day examination of skill and nerve. It can be dull at times: even after 30 hours' play the result is occasionally a draw. But it's cricket's best and brightest jewel. Since the 1970s, the sport's guardians have fed the cricket-lite one-day version of the game to its more fickle fans, but it's positively stately compared to Twenty20. The danger of Twenty20's spread is that, some day, few fans will have the patience for anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cricket's Deal with the Devil | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...means everyone. On that same day in mid-November, Europe's biggest consumer-electronics company invited all of its 125,000 workers worldwide to stop work and instead think about simplifying it. (The brightest ideas would be shared company-wide.) Dubbed "Simplicity Day," it was also part of a longer-term work in progress. Over the past few years, Philips has struggled to assemble the right collection of businesses and the structure with which to run them. The company has shed unwieldy chunks of an overweight, underperforming portfolio. In a classic make-or-buy decision, Philips dumped its chips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Complex Task of Simplicity | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...care. According to a report by the BBC, “the addictive nature of web browsing can leave you with an attention span of nine seconds—the same as a goldfish.” It’s difficult for even the putative best and brightest to concentrate on the moment at hand with midterms, rehearsals and deadlines vying for their attention, and an iPhone full of distractions competing for what’s left of it. But though it may be contrary to all these acquired instincts, we have much to gain by learning to live...

Author: By Molly M. Strauss | Title: Always Running | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

...elimination [of affirmative action] also affected the education and experience of the majority…by limiting the expression of viewpoints in and out of the classroom.” Diversity is vital to the primary goal of a university: not only to train the brightest minds of academia, but also to prepare them to lead in a world where different races play major roles. To accomplish that, universities have the right to use whatever criteria they think fair to assemble a well-rounded and diverse class...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Affirmatives of Affirmative Action | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

...support from mentors, more control over how he teaches and fewer problems with student discipline. Novice teachers are much more likely to call it quits if they work in schools where they feel they have little input or support, says Ingersoll. And there's evidence that the best and brightest are the first to leave. Teachers with degrees from highly selective college are more likely to leave than those from less prestigious schools. In poor districts, attrition rates are so high, says Carroll, that "we wind up taking anybody just to have an adult in the classroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Make Great Teachers | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

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