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...says, "The price is much, much lower for the assets--particularly iron ore and copper--than it would have been just six months ago. This seems like a pretty good deal." And as long as commodity prices are depressed, Chinese companies will be Going Out, cash in hand, ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buying Binge | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...would be halved in five years. Because the drop-off predated the worst of the recession, the report argued, the decline showed that the get-tough policies passed at the end of the Bush Administration were working. Members of Congress like Republican Representative Tom Feeney of Florida were on hand for a press conference with the report's authors. He celebrated the end of "perverse incentives" that had kept illegal immigrants in the U.S. "Obviously," Feeney said, "illegals are getting the message." (Watch TIME's video "Blocking the Border Fence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Despite Backlash, Illegal Immigrants Stay Put | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...specific physicians. We regret that some articles—in particular the November 14, 2008, piece, “Harvard Medical School Students Push to Codify Conflict of Interest Polices”—have placed unwarranted emphasis on individuals as opposed to the systemic issue at hand. In this letter, we wish to clarify Dr. Paul Richardson’s role in our course as described by The Crimson and also the process that led to the implementation of a formal HMS policy requiring faculty disclosure of conflicts of interest...

Author: By Kirsten Austad, Simeon Kimmel, Shamsher S. Samra, and David Tian, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Medical Conflicts of Interest | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...Increasingly, talking is something people do when other things are going on. Our generation doesn’t converse—we comment. We hand down our authoritative pronouncements through means of communication that don’t require us to defend our positions. No one has debates on Twitter. YouTube is covered in comments that would be better expressed—and better spelled—via a simple thumbs-up or down. Face-to-face conversation, too, has slipped more and more into commentary. People talk to pass the time, share information, and entertain each other...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: We Need to Talk | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...Lithuanian immigrant named Dov Behr opened the first matzo-making factory in Cincinnati, Ohio. Behr adopted the name Manischewitz, named his factory the B. Manischewitz Company and developed an entirely automated method of matzo production. In advertisements, Manischewitz boasted that "no human hand touches these matzos!" By 1920, he was the world's largest matzo producer - at 1.25 million rectangular, sheetlike matzos a day - but he always adhered to the original kosher rules. As Manischewitz's popularity grew, so did the general perception of matzo. Gone were the lumps and bumps of homemade mazo; machine-made mazo was uniform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So You Think You Know Matzo? | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

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