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...Many small businesses have cut back their staff to the minimum, so they are without the extra workers needed to plan for contingencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Businesses Prepare for a Hit from the H1N1 Flu | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

...entertaining. Each of his films is at least as interested in evoking emotion as in marshaling data; Moore uses cartoons and farcical collisions of images to sell his sagas. To the standard regimen of interviews, film clips and pie charts, he had the showman's savvy to add an extra ingredient: himself. Voilŕ! The docucomedy, with a front man as prominent as the subjects he investigates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Entertainer | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

When the Red Sox clinched the American League Wild Card on Tuesday, 12 Harvard Law School students sitting in the box seats of the team’s CEO had an extra incentive to watch: course credit...

Author: By Damilare K Sonoiki, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dershowitz Teaches Law of Baseball | 10/2/2009 | See Source »

...Finances Naturally, some Londoners are worried that organizers won't be able to stick to their ?9.3 billion ($14.8 billion) budget and taxpayers will end up shelling out any extra money required. Of the public Olympic financing bodies, the British government is kicking in nearly ?6 billion ($9.5 billion), the National Lottery ?2.2 billion ($3.5 billion) and the city government ?1.2 billion ($1.9 billion). There's also a second budget of ?2 billion ($3.2 billion) that is being privately funded. Still, it's difficult to say how much will eventually be spent to host the event. "No one will ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: London 2012: An Olympics Progress Report | 10/2/2009 | See Source »

...where it gets confusing. “Health care” may have technically been two words, but functionally it was one. The distinction was a fine one—and too subtle, apparently, to keep up. Before long, casual writers and professional editors alike started dropping that pesky extra space, transforming what had become a purely semantic nuance into no nuance...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich | Title: The Battle Over “Healthcare” | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

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