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Don't expect Delaware to do anything to tamper with this profitable business line. The state's division of corporate services recently boasted it spent just $12 million to earn $700 million - a quarter of the state's annual revenue. That enviable cost-revenue ratio has triggered copycat competitors. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why U.S. Law Helps Shield Global Criminality | 2/2/2010 | See Source »

This opening eases us into the slight sock hop feel of “Silver Soul,” which sounds precisely like the “medicine for heartache” that the lyrics promise. The back-up vocals harmonize furtively but effectively with Legrand’s voice...

Author: By Kelsey C. Nowell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Beach House | 2/2/2010 | See Source »

Ho is hoping it won't come to that. He is not under any illusion that a successful antibody-based treatment will have the sweeping effect of the polio or measles or smallpox vaccines - essentially wiping out the diseases in treated populations. Instead, an ibalizumab-based therapy will be just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Ho: The Man Who Could Beat AIDS | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

"It may not be President Obama's fault that our multibillion-dollar homeland-security apparatus is more Keystone Kops than 24 ... The Federal Government is (alas) a vast, ungovernable enterprise. And the bigger it gets, the less effective it will become ... [Still,] the President is in thrall to the illusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

Almost none of this is plausible, or even logically consistent. In old Mamet, themes and character revelations bubbled up naturally, almost imperceptibly, out of the rambling dialogue--that miasma of indirection, euphemism and profanity that has been dubbed Mametspeak. The new Mametspeak is more like Mametshout: thematic statements imposed from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Downward Spiral of David Mamet | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

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