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...meaningful professional sports league in America. It means that we are important in the lives of our fans. Our teams resonate in their communities and have a deep connection to the local fan base. We have a presence on television for all our games. Most importantly, soccer will have become an important part of the lives of many Americans, and MLS will have been a big driver of that. (See TIME's Pictures of the Week...
...computer, offers a lousy deep-reading experience. (That's why its signal application was called a "browser.") The Web has too many distractions in the form of links, e-mails, instant messages and now Twitters. Besides, if a device has a real keyboard, it's for "writing," not reading - the user is primed more for output than input. Amazon was the first to exploit that weakness and is building a billion-dollar business built around a gadget aimed at people who read offline. In fact, it has already supposedly sold more than 500,000 of its $359 e-readers, despite...
...survives, that is. During the five years that Aung Tun has panned the Irrawaddy, 25 people have died in his work group, which numbers no more than 40 laborers at one time. Some drowned during storms, while others succumbed to malaria or never came up after diving deep into the river. "The foreigners want gold," he says, squinting for yellow dust in the brown silt. "So we look for it." The equation in Asia's new Great Game is simple - and deadly...
...robbers of AIG should continue to profit from the carnage they helped cause, Senator Charles Grassley, Republican of Iowa, tended to the mob: He'd feel a little better, he said, if AIG's executives would "follow the Japanese example and come before the American people and take that deep bow and say I'm sorry, and then either do one of two things: resign or go commit suicide." Grassley's spokesman later clarified that he was just "speaking rhetorically" as far as the suicide part went...
...Transfer students have brought to the student body a special kind of the diversity that Harvard prizes. In addition to simply generating exceptional candidates who belonged at Harvard, transfer admissions also brought in students from very distinct institutions. Deep Springs, a two-year, all-male college and ranch in the California desert, is considered one of the most selective and intellectually engaged undergraduate institutions in the country. Formerly, significant numbers of its graduates finished their undergraduate careers at Harvard. Moreover, typical transfer classes included students from all of the military academies who had distinguished themselves in particularly difficult environments...