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...doubt, TV is changing, and fast. Free TV will become more cut-rate; quality will cost, as movies and books do. There will be more rarefied TV and more craptastic dreck. There will be less middle-of-the-road TV for everybody but more venues for telling stories that don't have to please 30 million people. The old networks (and the people who make shows for them) will struggle to make a buck, but new outlets will rise and thrive. ER will pass, but hospital dramas have birth stories as well as death stories. Broadcast TV may be flatlining...
...There's little doubt the coin is in good shape. A series of interest rate cuts in recent months "are starting to work in a way they aren't in other economies," says Dale Thomas, head of currency management at London's Insight Investment Management. That makes it unlikely Norway's central bank will need to revert to quantitative easing, the modern-day equivalent of printing money that's currently in fashion from the U.S. to the U.K. (See pictures of the printing of money...
...decades after ignoring the results of Burma's last polls, the country's long-ruling junta has promised another electoral exercise next year, most likely by springtime. Few doubt that the generals' henchmen will stuff ballot boxes to try to ensure that the opposition doesn't prevail like it did back in 1990, when the National League for Democracy (NLD) crushed the military's proxy party. (In a troubling portent, official approval of last May's constitutional referendum was tabulated at a credulity-straining 92.4%.) But the query put to me recently in the nation's teahouses...
...already serving a sentence for a rape conviction, the jury could not agree on a verdict, and the judge declared a mistrial. Earlier this year, an identical twin suspected of drug-smuggling and sentenced to death in Malaysia was set free when the court could not prove beyond doubt whether he or his brother had committed the crime. (Read a TIME cover story...
...feet above sea level, a height at which Arnold said most scientists didn’t expect to see the effect of climate change. The glacier has now almost completely melted. “My expectation from this exhibition is that wherever it goes, fewer and fewer people will doubt the extent to which we are changing the world,” Arnold said. Lehner said she was very happy with the turnout, adding that “there was a greater focus in his presentation on activism as compared to the exhibit.” Arnold said he wants...