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...screen speeds you up: you don't linger on the language; you just click through. We'll see less modernist-style difficulty and more romance-novel-style sentiment and high-speed-narrative throughput. Novels will compete to hook you in the first paragraph and then hang on for dear life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books Gone Wild: The Digital Age Reshapes Literature | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...North Korea Up Next: Kim Junior? Citing intelligence sources, South Korean news outlets reported that Dear Leader Kim Jong Il, who has barely been seen since suffering a suspected stroke last August, has named his youngest son, Jong Un, as his successor. Little is known about Jong Un, who is in his mid-20s and has lived a life of secrecy--much as his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...updates from everyone a user knows: a distant cousin is glad he skipped the cheeseburger chowder; a colleague has a new book on sale; a close friend is engaged or newly single. Jenny and I, along with three of our childhood pals from Saratoga Springs, N.Y., learned that a dear old friend had ended her seven-year relationship through a Facebook status change. We expressed dismay, albeit through Facebook's IM feature, that we had to learn such potent information in this impersonal way. (See the best social networking applications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Facebook Replace Face Time or Enhance It? | 1/18/2009 | See Source »

...people actually like our jokes. However, if you’re willing to hand over the keys to the castle, we can talk.College Boxes: We thought this was an opportunity to write a screenplay for a pornographic film, but it actually was just an inept storage company.Freeze College Magazine: Dear FCM, we’re sorry about the mix-up. That application was supposed to go to Diamond Magazine. We know you’re much more interested in “what’s in this winter” than pictures of our dicks.Harvard Medieval Review...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Two Men of Letters Ponder the Press | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...goodbye. I went over to the wheelchair where he was resting and said some final words. It was the most surreal experience of my life. I'm not a very demonstrative guy, but I couldn't control my emotions that day. I lost a father figure. Basketball lost a dear friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pete Newell | 12/29/2008 | See Source »

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