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Electronics retailers have a dirty??little secret about those pricey HDTVs: the pristine pictures on showroom models that wow consumers aren't what they will be watching at home. That's because most TV content is still delivered in standard-definition format. Result: Seinfeld reruns will look worse on a new $2,500 HDTV...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adjusting the Picture for HDTV | 12/4/2005 | See Source »

...British case dramatized the expanse and expense of espionage activity round the world. It was also a reminder that the old spy business, which has received little attention in the past three or four years, is as intense?and dirty???as ever, despite the rise of a new type of operative. Since World War II, espionage has undergone a metamorphosis. For a time, its stars were the famed "illegal" or "deep cover" agents?the Colonel Abels, the Gorden Lonsdales, the Kim Philbys. Says British Sovietologist Robert Conquest: "These men compare with the massive embassy operations rather as a skilled armored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Spies: Foot Soldiers in an Endless War | 10/11/1971 | See Source »

...were no arrests of Indians for 22 straight weekends. Ironically, it was during a prison term for burglary that Bellecourt decided he could help other Indians. "I read a lot of books," he says, "and I started finding out that I wasn't a savage, that I wasn't dirty???and that I was smart." For his work, he is paid a salary by the Urban Coalition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Angry American indian: Starting Down the Protest Trail | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

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