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...what amounts to a continuous dialogue about what is and what is not acceptable. This includes not only political censorship but morals - especially relating to porn and sex. Google may have hired its own cadre of Chinese executives but it - like Yahoo and eBay before - has always played catch-up to the more connected crowd of Chinese entrepreneurs and their companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Google and China: Silicon Valley Is No Longer King | 1/15/2010 | See Source »

...frost starts coming later, though, she says, they can't un-evolve overnight. "The current forests won't immediately start growing taller and stronger," she says. Eventually, the evolutionary process will catch up, as new seedlings without the frost response take over. "In principle, however," says Kuparinen, "this process will take a long time. The rate of evolution is slower than the rate at which climate will change." The forests would thus get no benefit, remaining stunted until seedlings without early dormancy genes can take root and take over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Even Plants May Not Like a Warmer World | 1/15/2010 | See Source »

...catch is that each adjustment to the new, cheap world risks losing people who liked the old, expensive one. Broadcast TV once thrived by pitching a big tent. But now the various poles of that tent - Jay fans, Conan fans, etc. - don't particularly want to share the same campsite, and they no longer have to. (See the top 10 late-night jokes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lessons of Leno: Why the Future Failed for NBC | 1/14/2010 | See Source »

...catch was that "I hadn't [preached] about it in 24 years." So he promised his congregation, "I'm not going to overwhelm you." Yet he persisted, sermonizing repeatedly about America's racial history and continuing inequities. He pledged to open Willow to every ethnicity. In 2003, he recalls, he threw down the gauntlet, telling his flock that the church's racial outreach was "part of who we are, and if it can't be part of who you are, you probably need to find a church that doesn't talk about this issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Megachurches Bridge the Racial Divide? | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

...Without the stress of exams or schoolwork, the team has been able to catch up on sleep,” Morawski said. “This academic schedule could work...

Author: By Eric L. Michel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Swimming Dominates Penn in Return to Action | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

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