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...reading tweets. This means that they were not engaged in the discussion at the table and that this tool was actually distracting from rather than enhancing the discussions at the forum. Aside from being a new venue to reinforce our sadly shortened attention spans, Twitter is a narcissist's dream of one-way communication. I, for one, will never care what Shaq is doing or thinking about anything. I don't care what anyone had for breakfast. I don't care what I had for breakfast. Tom Granger, WILMINGTON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turn Off, Tune In, Log Out | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...forum that would encourage stability in what Rudd says is still a "brittle part of the world." The bloc would build on the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) birthed and nurtured by his Labor predecessors Bob Hawke and Paul Keating. In 2008, Rudd's proposal sounded like a pipe dream. Today, he argues, the need for such a grouping is all the more important because the global financial crisis underlines how individual countries, even supremely powerful ones, cannot rely on go-it-alone approaches. "I am acutely conscious of what happens when you simply allow things to drift to unrestrained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. World: Kevin Rudd | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...from, rather than enhancing, the discussions at the forum. It can easily be argued that the ideas lost from the discussion at hand far outweighed the brief ones gained via Twitter. Aside from being a new venue to reinforce our sadly shortened attention spans, Twitter is a narcissist's dream of one-way communication. I, for one, will never care what Shaq is doing or thinking about anything. I don't care what anyone had for breakfast. I don't care what I had for breakfast. Tom Granger, Wilmington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...Israel in 1978 from the Soviet republic of Moldavia, now Moldova. His father fought in the Red Army in World War II but, like many other Soviet Jews, later spent years of forced exile in Siberia. "In my home, we spoke only about Israel," Lieberman says. "It was a dream that one day we would come here." Upon arriving, Lieberman enrolled at Hebrew University, moonlighting as a bouncer at a student nightclub and becoming active in the right-wing Likud Party. In the late '80s, he and his wife moved to Nokdim, a rugged West Bank settlement overlooking the Judaean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avigdor Lieberman: Politically Incorrect | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...from boardwalks to state fairs to short-form direct-response ads. By the time he died of heart disease on June 28 at 50, he was on television more than 400 times a week. To an aspiring inventor or an entrepreneur, his oratory was the difference between a pipe dream and a blockbuster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Billy Mays | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

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