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Shanda first courted success with a concept that's bigger in Asia than in the U.S.: online games, a $370 million industry in China in which players interact with each other via the Internet in a virtual world of dragons, maidens and sword fights. Chen has bought majority stakes in Sina, the country's largest portal, and a host of other online gaming companies. Next up, Shanda, in collaboration with Intel, hopes to introduce a set-top box that will enable users to access everything from news, music and movies to games and online auction sites. Currently, only 20 million...
...duff and exercising. It was courageous of TIME to point out Americans' laziness and make the connection between obesity and our passion for convenience. Being healthy takes more than putting down the feedbag. It means getting off the couch and engaging in forward motion. What a novel concept...
Where is mankind supposed to turn to find the noble concept of moral clarity that Sharansky says Amnesty International lacks? The Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo scandals have spoiled whatever claim the U.S. had to moral values. Israel and America are not champions of moral clarity. Both have been attacked, and both have retaliated. Sharansky also complained of the moral equivalence that Amnesty's reports seem to confer on both terrorist regimes and democratic societies. There may be no moral equivalence between a terrorist attack and a retaliation, but let's at least be honest about it. Both are atrocities...
...made one. 30 Days (FX, Wednesdays, 10 p.m. E.T., debuts June 15) franchises Super Size Me's high concept. In each episode, someone undergoes a transformation for a month: living as a Muslim, undergoing anti-aging treatments and so on. But this time Spurlock (who also has a new book out about fast food) is not the sole guinea pig. When he pitched the series, he says, "the idea was each month, I'd go off and do these things. And Alex [Jamieson, his girlfriend] said, 'You're not going to have a girlfriend if you do that...
...President Summers is promoting the concept that the life sciences in Massachusetts is a sector that is going to be the wave of the future—an important part of that sector is stem cell research,” says Casey...