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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fast-forward a bit - you've now played some 10,200 concerts under nine philharmonic conductors. Is walking onto that stage before a performance now very different from when you started playing? There are a lot of similarities. It's the same rush, the same concentration. You try to make it a first-time experience. It's a challenge every time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Six Decades at the New York Philharmonic | 6/17/2009 | See Source »

After a 40% rally in the S&P 500 off its March market lows, Wall Street strategists had been expecting a market pullback, or consolidation, as part of an orderly advance. But investors are also increasingly anxious that stocks have risen too far and too fast relative to prospective earnings. Even after the decline on June 16, stocks still sell at more than 20 times their expected earnings for 2009 - far from cheap. (See pictures of scared traders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Stock-Market Pullback: Is the Recovery Stalling? | 6/16/2009 | See Source »

Intelligence officers dismiss such fiery talk as bluster, saying it would be difficult to conceal a terrorist plot in a country as small as Bosnia. "Word spreads fast," says Aner Hadzimahmutovic, antiterrorism chief at the State Investigation and Protection Agency. "If 15 people with beards meet in the bush, someone will report them to us." The one Bosnian who repeatedly claims to have trained and fought with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan - citing gory details of how he supposedly slit the throat of an Australian soldier - remains free. Nihad Cosic was arrested in a 2007 police raid in Pakistan, but released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bosnia's Islamic Revival | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

...Universal Search. The Pre is a slide phone - a touchscreen on its face gives way to a keyboard below. Simply start typing, and WebOS pulls up a pane that searches your contacts and also gives you the option to search via Google, Wikipedia or Twitter. You can type, "How fast does a zebra run," hit a Google button and get the answer. Pretty sweet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pre: Palm's Plot to Take on the iPhone | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

This hope of playing a win-win game shows up in overtures to Jews in particular, made mainly after Muhammad moved to the city of Medina and became its political and religious leader. Muhammad decided his followers should have an annual 24-hour fast, as Jews did on Yom Kippur. He even called it Yom Kippur - at least he used the term some Arabian Jews were using for Yom Kippur. The Jewish ban on eating pork was mirrored in a Muslim ban. Muhammad also told his followers to pray facing Jerusalem. He said God, in his "prescience," chose "the children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decoding God's Changing Moods | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

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