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...found that it's almost foolproof. Of course, you can't just pop it on somebody. You have to introduce it in a way that is relevant and makes sense, but almost everyone responds to it. Top tens are good. CDs on a desert island. Then you get into arguments about whether you can have whole catalogs of CDs or just one CD. Is it all of Beethoven, or just one string quartet? What happens is when you do a category like that, the discussion often deteriorates in a good way into actual substantive conversation. But it takes work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conversation: Art or Skill? | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

...lasts less than a second before one or both of you races for the "Next" button. When I tried to actually chat with people - mainly to ask what they were looking for on the site - they either stared blankly or skipped ahead. It seems that the only way to get anyone to stop their endless scroll is to either a) be female (in my unscientific test, about 85% of the people on ChatRoulette were male) or b) be ridiculous. The latter explains my gas-mask friend, faux Hitler and people posing as cast members from Jersey Shore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ChatRoulette: The Perils of Video Chats with Strangers | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

...like losing, and if we need to respond, we'll respond." Tomczyk adds that his firm would even take some hits to profits to hold the line. "It's about growth in the long term and being competitive first and foremost," he says. "If that means your profits get squeezed [in the short term], your profits get squeezed." (See the worst business deals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brokers Wage a Price War on Commissions | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

...that may be the point: more-moderate Republicans like Lindsey Graham have made it clear that they believe that support for nuclear energy needs to be a part of America's new energy policy. By spending billions to back the nuclear industry, the White House may be able to get some Republican support for the floundering climate-and-energy bill, which would put a limit on greenhouse gases. "On an issue which affects our economy, our security and the future of our planet," said Obama in Maryland, "we cannot continue to be mired in the same old debates between left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Green Politics Behind Nuclear Power | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

...goal was to use the high energy at Harvard about helping Haiti and show students how they can get involved in long-term projects,” said SAGHAH Board speaker Michael B. Hadley...

Author: By Meredith C. Baker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Haiti Benefit Concert Raises $37,000 | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

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