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...neighbor annoyed about the number of typos she said she's been seeing in the New York Times. The editors are probably stretched thin, I said; the Times just went through a big round of layoffs. That's terrible, she agreed. Anyway, she said, she was going to drop her weekday subscription. Why should she pay all that money and get typos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lessons of Leno: Why the Future Failed for NBC | 1/14/2010 | See Source »

...weight experts are choosing to interpret the numbers in the most hopeful way, saying public-education campaigns are working and that now is the time to double down on them. "The one thing that was most responsible for the drop in the per capita tobacco use in the U.S. was public awareness," says Dietz. "That may be happening with obesity now." America's health - to say nothing of its waistline - may depend on that being true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obesity News: Americans Not Getting Fatter | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

After years of struggling to build its China operations, Google has threatened to pull out of the country following a sophisticated cyberattack on its corporate infrastructure. The California-based Internet giant also announced on Tuesday that it will drop its self-censorship of its Chinese-language Google.cn search engine, which the company had previously filtered to prevent it from returning results on topics that angered Chinese authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Google Ends Policy of Self-Censorship in China | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

...that if he wins, he'll be the linchpin in a successful GOP filibuster of health care reform, and Coakley has stressed on the campaign that she would be the 60th vote to deliver one of Kennedy's top priorities. If Brown were to win, Democrats would have to drop everything and fly to Maine to find out what Republican moderates Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe might want in exchange for their votes. Or, according to the Boston Herald, Massachusetts Democrats could drag their feet certifying Brown's victory to allow Congress to cram through health care. (Read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could the Democrats Lose Kennedy's Senate Seat? | 1/12/2010 | See Source »

...billion in the country's fiscal year ended March 31. But recession has caused a dramatic deceleration as companies in the U.S. and Europe scale back technology spending. NASSCOM forecasts that the growth rate of India's exports of IT and other business services will drop to at most 7% in the current fiscal year, down from 16% last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outsourcers Go Global | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

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