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...complex as China, an English-Chinese dictionary can be indispensable. One solution is PlecoDict, a program for Palm devices and Pocket PCs that includes up to five dictionaries. You can find words by searching in English or in Chinese--by romanized spelling or character. The software also includes a flash-card program, so you can learn new words while you're stuck in Beijing traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real China | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...playing his saxophone on Arsenio. He is the first rock star President of this country." Certainly Clinton is greeted like a rock star by the mostly student crowd as he moves down the ramp from Main Hall to a podium on the mall in the heart of the campus. Flash bulbs go off, camera phones are lifted high and U2 blasts over the speakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas, Bill v. Barack | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

...public place and see someone dancing wildly with headphones on, look around—if there are 400 other people doing the same thing, you may have just found yourself in the middle of a silent dance party. The Banditos Misteriosos, a group of Boston locals that organizes flash mob events, hosted Boston’s First Silent Dance Experiment in front of Faneuil Hall. The group wrote and recorded a song that directs the listener to perform certain motions—such as “Squat down, pose like ‘The Thinker...

Author: By Jihae Lee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Seen and Scene | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

German tourist Jurgen Kohl was window shopping in Mexico's trendy Zona Rosa district last Friday afternoon when he saw a flash of brilliant light followed by a thundering bang and the sound of shattering glass. Minutes later, ambulances and police rushed into the street to find three blood-soaked people crying for help and the remains of a crude plastic explosives device. One of the injured died on the way to hospital. "Being in Mexico, I first thought it was an earthquake or something," Kohl said, visibly shaken from the blast. "I had no idea that bombs went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Mexico's Drug War Escalating? | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

...transform the raw materials of culture into intellectually elevated Works Of Art. The MFA and “Mirrorball” make no bones about these kind of aspirations: “at their best, these music promos have more in common with groundbreaking short cinema than commercial flash.” But do they really? At last Saturday’s “Global Selection” screening, a few of the videos on display lived up to their high-art billing. Karina Garcia Casanova’s video for the song “Disown, Delete?...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Putting MTV in the MFA | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

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