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TIME has a long history with Steve Jobs. We first put him on the cover in 1982 for a story about what we called "America's risk takers" - and he has been taking risks ever since. Over the years, Jobs has given us behind-the-scenes access to Apple's product development, as when we did a feature about the launch of the iPhone three years ago. This time, in anticipation of the iPad's launch, we sent out the English writer, actor and technology geek Stephen Fry to spend some time with Jobs and his team...
...participate in things that we also cover. I am not one of those who see the tablet as the solution for all the media's problems, but I do see it as a dynamic new way that we can present great reporting and writing to our readers. For the first time since the magazine's birth in 1923, we will soon be delivering the entire contents of TIME to paying customers in a radically different way: as a self-contained application that you can download to the iPad. (See the unveiling of Apple's iPad...
...temporary coffin carrying Ricketts arrived at Dover Air Force Base on March 2. (The body of Specialist Ian Gelig, also killed in Afghanistan, arrived on the same plane.) Dover is the first stop for dead soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, and their families are often on hand to attend a brief, solemn ceremony as the flag-wrapped cases are removed from the plane and brought to the mortuary. The ban on media coverage of these transfers, in place during the Bush Administration, was lifted in February 2009, when Secretary of Defense Robert Gates ruled it should...
...innovations, such as the use of instant replay. And, again with the fan in mind and at heart, he hired a Koufax, a Kubek, and several other great sports names as commentators. With two networks behind him, Chet then went to ESPN, becoming the 24-hour sports channel's first president in 1979. "What lies ahead for cable television is incalculable," he said. How right...
...sports television--SportsCenter, the early-round coverage of the NCAA men's basketball tournament and the National Football League draft telecast. Along the way, he gave many young women and men a shot. He hired me at ESPN and my brother Bryant at NBC. These jobs were our first network career breaks...